Court Opinion

ID: 8635750
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-24 19:44:57.241486+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:55:55.223735
License: Public Domain

HALL, District Judge,
said: “The judgment against the petitioner, under which he anticipates arrest, appears to have been rendered upon a debt created by fraud of the bankrupt, and the thirty-third section of the bankrupt act expressly provides that no such debts shall be discharged under that act The twenty-sixth section, which provides for the production and examination of the bankrupt, in case he is imprisoned, and which provides that no bankrupt shall be liable to arrest during the pendency of the proceedings in bankruptcy in any civil action, unless the same is founded on some debt or claim from which his discharge in bankruptcy would not release him, shows that he is not to be considered as absolutely privileged from arrest, and as the court in bankruptcy has no power to discharge the judgment, it should not interfere to prevent its enforcement by imprisonment, unless it be necessary to enable the bankrupt court to exercise its proper authority and jurisdiction in the case. The effect of the protection which the register is authorized to grant is not now under consideration, and the present motion is disposed of without reference to the extent of that protection, and without determining any question other than that directly in controversy. The motion is denied, but as this is the first time the question has been presented, it is without costs.”