Devereaux v. Belsey

INCH, District Judge.

The petitioner, Alfred E. Devereaux, has been duly adjudicated a voluntary bankrupt and has been duly discharged. In his schedules duly filed he set forth a judgment recovered against him in the state court, in the sum of $500, representing damages for a false imprisonment, awarded to the judgment creditor Harry T. Belsey.

The bankrupt now files this petition, in his bankruptcy proceeding, in which he asks that said judgment creditor Belsey be enjoined and restrained from enforcing or attempting to enforce the said judgment for damages for false imprisonment because of…