Bromley v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to a circuit court commissioner for Wayne county. Plaintiff in error was arrested and brought before the commissioner, on two separate complaints, under chapter 166 of Compiled Laws, known as the Fraudulent Debtor’s Act, in each of which he was charged by complainants, who had brought 'suit against him in the Wayne Circuit Court, with having fraudulently contracted debts with them, in the state of Massachusetts, and with having afterwards made a fraudulent…
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Certiorari to a circuit court commissioner for Wayne county. Plaintiff in error was arrested and brought before the commissioner, on two separate complaints, under chapter 166 of Compiled Laws, known as the Fraudulent Debtor’s Act, in each of which he was charged by complainants, who had brought 'suit against him in the Wayne Circuit Court, with having fraudulently contracted debts with them, in the state of Massachusetts, and with having afterwards made a fraudulent assignment of his property in Wisconsin, on the pretence of appropriating the same to the payment of his debts, but secretly…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell J.:
The plaintiff in error was arrested and committed by a circuit court commissioner, upon complaints made by two separate creditors, under the chapter of the statutes entitled “Of the punishment of Fraudulent Debtors.” — 2 Comp, B. p. 1411. The charges found by the commissioner to have been sustained, were for fraud in contracting- the' debt in one case, and for fraudulently assigning and disposing of his property in both. No hearing was had upon any facts except those set forth in the preliminary affidavits, as the plaintiff in error objected to the jurisdiction. The complaints…
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- Lynde v. MontgomeryNew York Supreme Court · 1836
- Ex parte Spencer v. HiltonNew York Supreme Court · 1834
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- Frost v. MyrickNew York Supreme Court · 1847
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