Hall v. . Kellogg

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[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] If our courts have failed to make the act abolishing imprisonment for debt consistent with itself, it is not for want of ingenuity, or of variety in their experiments for that purpose. The late chancellor applied to the law the maxim of his court, that among creditors equality was equity, and attempted to construe the act upon that…