Morrow v. Weaver
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Dallas. Action of debt, by Morrow and Nelson, against Weaver and Frow, as the sureties of one Parkman, on a. prison bounds bond, conditioned that the said Parkman, should continue a true prisoner, in the custody, guard, and safe keeping of the keeper of the prison, or of his steward, bailiff, deputy, or other officer, or of some of them, within the limits of the prison bounds of said prison, as by law established, until he should be…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Dallas. Action of debt, by Morrow and Nelson, against Weaver and Frow, as the sureties of one Parkman, on a. prison bounds bond, conditioned that the said Parkman, should continue a true prisoner, in the custody, guard, and safe keeping of the keeper of the prison, or of his steward, bailiff, deputy, or other officer, or of some of them, within the limits of the prison bounds of said prison, as by law established, until he should be thence discharged, by due course of law, without committing any escape in the mean time. Breach assigned, that the said…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
1. All the questions in this case, involve the construction, more or less, of the act abolishing imprisonment for debt, and cannot well be determined without ascertaining its true meaning and extent.
*292The first section of this act provides, “ that if a plaintiff, or his agent, shall make oath of the amount of the indebtedness of any one to such plaintiff, and that the debtor is about to abscond, or such debtor has fraudulently conveyed, or is about fraudulently to convey, his estate or effects, or such person hath moneys liable to satisfy his debts, which he fraudulently withholds; then, and in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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