Burkle v. Ells

Gridley, Justice.

-—The ground on which the defendant asks for his discharge from the execution, is that the judgment against him is founded upon contract, and that he is, therefore exempt from arrest or imprisonment upon it, unde the first section of the act to abolish imprisonment for debt and to punish fraudulent debtors, (Laws of 1881, p. 896.) That act provides “ that no person shall be arrested or imprisoned, on any civil process issuing out of any court of law, &c., in any suit or proceeding instituted for the recovery of any money due on any judgment founded upon contract, or due upon…