Hyman v. Barmon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Stiles, J.

In several recent cases this court has construed the act of 1890, to secure to creditors the benefit of *517estates of insolvent debtors, to be an insolvent law, and one of the principal reasons for that construction, as against the holding that it was a mere regulation of common law assignments, is that it contains a provision whereby a debtor may be absolutely discharged of all his debts. For this reason, if for no other, many cases arising under statutory provisions similar to that in our law, which provide that every assignment for the…