Curtis v. Feste
District Court, D. Louisiana
[Action by Curtis and others against Victor Feste to recover a debt. On motion to discharge the debtor from imprisonment for want of jurisdiction.]
1Opinion of the Court
This case came up on Wednesday, May ISth, 1853, and motion was made to discharge defendant from arrest, who was taken by process issued from this court, in accordance with the tenth and thirteenth sections of an act of the Louisiana legislature, passed in March, 1840. [Laws La. pp. 133, 134.]
In 1837, congress abolished imprisonment for debt, under process from the courts of the United States, in those states where it had been abolished by law, and provided that “when by the laws of a state, imprisonment for debt shall be allowed under certain conditions and restrictions, the same conditions…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Ex parte CrawfordCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1907