In re Owen
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY PETITIONEE EEOM THE COVET OE COMMON PLEAS OE SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. No. 206 July Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. On June 16,1890, Alonzo Owen, an alleged insolvent debtor, presented bis petition for his discharge under the insolvent laws. The schedule of his property attached to his petition showed that he owned a suit of clothes of the value of $3, and an overcoat of the value of six dollars.
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APPEAL BY PETITIONEE EEOM THE COVET OE COMMON PLEAS OE SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. No. 206 July Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. On June 16,1890, Alonzo Owen, an alleged insolvent debtor, presented bis petition for his discharge under the insolvent laws. The schedule of his property attached to his petition showed that he owned a suit of clothes of the value of $3, and an overcoat of the value of six dollars. The list of his creditors and the nature and amount of his debts exhibited indebtedness for costs, for fines, and for lying-in expenses of Jennie Hossler, amounting to…
1Per curiam
The single assignment of error is to the opinion of the court below. The opinion is not assignable as error, for the reason that it does not come here upon a certiorari, and, further, does not appear to have been excepted to. There was an exception to the order of the court dismissing the appellant’s petition for a discharge under the insolvent laws. This was what the learned counsel probably intended to assign as error. If we treat it in this way it does not help him. Whether the appellant was a fraudulent debtor, and for this reason not entitled to his discharge, was a question of fact,…
2Cited by1 opinion
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