Tubbs v. McCabe

Harrington, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

With certain exceptions that need not be considered, Section 17 of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 (11 USCA § 35) provides that, “A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts”; and it is not denied that the plaintiffs’ judgment was duly scheduled or that it was in that class of debts covered by the *330statute. A discharge does not, however, extinguish the debt but merely bars the remedy thereon. Winter v. Hindin 3 W. W. Harr. (33 Del.) 294; Collins v. McWalters, 35 Misc. 648, 72 N. Y. S. 203; Ala. Great So. Rwy.…