Ex parte Wilson
Supreme Court of the United States
WILSON petitioned the , court for a writ of haheas corpus, and a certiorari to bring up the record of a civil cause in which judgment' had been rendered against him, upon which ara. sa. had. issued, hy which he was taken and was now in confinement within the prisons bounds upon a prison-bounds bond, His petition stated that the marshal had demanded of the creditor the daily allowance for the prisoner agreeably to the act of congress, concerning insolvent debtors within the…
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WILSON petitioned the , court for a writ of haheas corpus, and a certiorari to bring up the record of a civil cause in which judgment' had been rendered against him, upon which ara. sa. had. issued, hy which he was taken and was now in confinement within the prisons bounds upon a prison-bounds bond, His petition stated that the marshal had demanded of the creditor the daily allowance for the prisoner agreeably to the act of congress, concerning insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia, (Laws U. S. vol. 6- p. 301. § 15.) which the creditor had refused to pay, in consequence of which…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.
after consultation with tKc, other judges, stated that the court was not *53that a habeas corpus is the proper remeciy, in a case of arrest under a civil process.
Habeas corpus' refused.
2Cited by1 opinion
- Wilson, Ex ParteSupreme Court of the United States · 1810