Allen v. Carpenter
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an application to the county court to supersede an execution as impropely and .irregularly issued from that court. At December Term, 1824, Carpenter recovered a judgment against Allen, on which execution issued, and Allen was committed to jail, and on the 10th day of March, 1825, was admitted to the poor debtor’s oath, and released from confinement.
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This was an application to the county court to supersede an execution as impropely and .irregularly issued from that court. At December Term, 1824, Carpenter recovered a judgment against Allen, on which execution issued, and Allen was committed to jail, and on the 10th day of March, 1825, was admitted to the poor debtor’s oath, and released from confinement. Nothing further was d.one until the 25th day of August, 1834, when said Carpenter prayed out execution of that date against the goods, chattels and estate' of Allen, and levied the same ; — to supersede which, as irregularly issued, this…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Collamer, J.
By the statute relating to jails and jailers, and for the relief persons imprisoned therein, provision is made that poor prisoners may take the oath therein prescribed, and thereupon be discharged. In the 13th section, (Stat. p. 222,) it is provided, e< That all and every judgment obtained against any such prisoner, shall, notwithstanding such discharge, be and remain good and effectual in law, to all intents and purposes, against any estate whatever, which may then or at any time afterwards belong unto any such prisoner; and a new…
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