Wiltshire v. Lambert

The appellant Wiltshire recovered in an action for slander, a judgment for $5,000 against the appellee, his mother-in-law, which we may assume was unfair, and put her in jail.

On habeas corpus she was released, hut on what grounds does not appear. The judgment, therefore, except so far as her imprisonment is a credit upon it, under the statute, at the rate of §1.50 per day, remains in force. “ The greatest effect which the law gives to a commitment on a ca. sa. is a suspension of the other remedies on the judgment during its continuance; whenever it terminates without the consent of the…