Clark v. Everett
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. The principle- decided may be clearly understood from the opinion of the court, without a statement of facts.
1Opinion of the Court
*417The opinion of the court was delivered January 13, 1854, by
Lewis, J.
— Where an action is brought against a defendant for a debt which he honestly owes, but x>n which the customary credit of six months has not expired, and upon his arrest and imprisonment, the attorney for the plaintiff enters upon the record of the action, that the defendant is discharged, it is a discharge from the debt as well as from the action itself.
Where such discharge is the result of a compromise, and the payment of money by the defendant to the plaintiff, without objection,'upon the ground that the credit had not…
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