Montesquieu v. Heil

*52The facts are stated fully in the .opinion of the court, delivered by

Mathews, J.

The debtor, Heil, being imprisoned under a ca sa, issued at the instance of the opposing creditors, and remaining in jail more than two months, the plaintiff instituted the present proceedings to compel the defendant to make a surrender of his property. The suit is based on the 7th section of the act of 1808, passed “for the relief of insolvent debtors in actual custody,” &c. The debtor filed a schedule of his property and debts, in conformity with the requisitions of the act, and offered to transfer and assign to…