Baldwin v. Bank of Newbury

68 U.S. 234 (1863)

1 Wall. 234

BALDWIN

v.

BANK OF NEWBURY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Mr. F.A. Brooks, for Baldwin, the plaintiff in error.

Mr. Hutchins, contra.

Mr. Justice CLIFFORD, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court:

1. Two questions are presented for decision, but the first is the same as that just decided in the preceding case, and for the reasons there given must be determined in the same way. Contrary to what was held in the case of Scribner et al. v. Fisher, 2 Gray, 43, we hold that the certificate of discharge in the case was no bar to the action, because the debt…