Sturges v. Crowninshield
Supreme Court of the United States
This wás an action of assumpsit brought in the. Circuit Court of Massachusetts, against the defendt ant, as the maker of two promissory notes, both dated at New-York, on the 22d. of March, 1811, for the sum of 771 dollars and 86 cehts each, and payable to the plaintiff, one on the 1st of August, and the ether on the 15th of August,' 1811. The defendant pleaded his discharge under ‘c An act for the benefit of insolvent debtors and their creditors,” passed by the legislature'…
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This wás an action of assumpsit brought in the. Circuit Court of Massachusetts, against the defendt ant, as the maker of two promissory notes, both dated at New-York, on the 22d. of March, 1811, for the sum of 771 dollars and 86 cehts each, and payable to the plaintiff, one on the 1st of August, and the ether on the 15th of August,' 1811. The defendant pleaded his discharge under ‘c An act for the benefit of insolvent debtors and their creditors,” passed by the legislature' of New-York, the 3d day of April, 1811* After stating the provisions of the said act, the defendant’s' plea averred his…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
This case is adjourned from the Court of the United States, for the first circuit and the district of Massachusetts, .on several points on which the judges of that Court were divided, which arestatéd *192in the record for the opinion of this Cóuít. The first is,
Whether, since the adoption of the constitution of the United States, any State has authority to pass a bankrupt law, or whether the power is exclusively .vested in the Congress of the United States ?
_ . . I his question depends on the following clause, in 1 the 8th section of the 1st article of the constitution of 'the StateS-
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