Jewett v. Pleak

This suit was brought by the appellants, Jewett and eleven others, against Preston Jones, Joseph D. Pleak, Edmund Marshall, George W. Hungate, and Andrew J. Hungate. The questions in the case here, however, only affect and are solely between the appellants who were plaintiffs below and the appellees, Pleak and Marshall, who were two of the defendants below. The transaction set out and *369complained of in this case took place when there was not a bankrupt law of the United States in force, and when there was no law of the State forbidding a debtor in failing circumstances honestly to make an…