Wendell v. Lebon
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiffs from an order of the district court for Clay county, McKelry, J., presiding, (acting for the judge of the 11th district,) dissolving an attachment. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The questions involved in this appeal relate to the constitutionality of certain provisions of chapter 148, Laws 1881, entitled “An act to prevent debtors from giving preference to creditors, and to secure the equal distribution of the property of debtors among their creditors, and for the release of debts against debtors,” passed March 7, 1881, and which took effect July 1st of the same year. A reference to the law itself will be necessary to a full understanding of the case. Suffice it to say here that the act in its essential features is a bankrupt law. Section 1 provides for what may be…
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