Austin Sumner & Co. v. Dunbar

The plaintiffs having instituted suit in the Fourth District Court against the defendant, upon two promissory notes, the judgment was pronounced thereon on the 9th day of January, 1855, and signed on the 13th day of the same month. In the interval between the rendition of the judgment and its signature, viz, on the 12th day of January, the defendant presented his petition for a respite to the Sixth District Court, and obtained an order from the Judge for a meeting of the creditors and a stay of all judicial proceedings against his person and property. It does not appear whether this order of…