James v. Allen
Supreme Court of the United States
THE case was this:-The Plaintiffs and the Defendant had been concerned together in trade; and upon settling their accounts, a considerable ballance appeared against Allen; for the recovery of which an action was brought in the State of New-Jersey in May 1782; and judgment was therein obtained in November following, when a Fi. fa. issued, and on a return of Nulla bona to that writ, a Ca.
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THE case was this:-The Plaintiffs and the Defendant had been concerned together in trade; and upon settling their accounts, a considerable ballance appeared against Allen; for the recovery of which an action was brought in the State of New-Jersey in May 1782; and judgment was therein obtained in November following, when a Fi. fa. issued, and on a return of Nulla bona to that writ, a Ca. Sa. was sued out returnable to May 1783—In the mean time, the Defendant, on the 27th of April 1783, was arrested in Pennsylvania for the same debt, and gave bail; but, on his return to New-Jersey, he was there…
1Opinion of the Court
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, that the decisions of even foreign Courts of Justice, shall have a binding force here; and that in the situation in which we stand with regard to New-Jersey, a Sister State,…
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