JAMES v. ALLEN


1 U.S. 188 (1786)

1 Dall. 188

JAMES et al. versus ALLEN.

Supreme Court of United States.


SHIPPEN, President.

This is a motion, in effect, to discharge the Defendant from execution, on the ground of his having been confined by a Ca. Sa. for the same Debt in the State of New-Jersey, and there discharged as an insolvent Debtor, by virtue of an Act of Assembly of that State: And the question is, whether the discharge of his person from imprisonment there, will intitle him to a like discharge here?

It is contended...

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