Archer v. Brown
Supreme Court of Florida
Error tó' Leon Circuit Court; This w'ás an action of debt, tried in Leon Circuit court, at its Fall Term,. 1845 — Hon. Thomas Douglas presiding. . The declaration set forth that William H. Francis, since a bankrupt, on the 17th February, 1842, recovered a judgment against Thomas Brown and Ellen A. Duval, since intermarried with William H. Brockenbro.ugh, Administrator and Administratrix of Samuel H. Duval, for the sum of $350 38-100, to be levied of the goods and chattels,…
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Error tó' Leon Circuit Court; This w'ás an action of debt, tried in Leon Circuit court, at its Fall Term,. 1845 — Hon. Thomas Douglas presiding. . The declaration set forth that William H. Francis, since a bankrupt, on the 17th February, 1842, recovered a judgment against Thomas Brown and Ellen A. Duval, since intermarried with William H. Brockenbro.ugh, Administrator and Administratrix of Samuel H. Duval, for the sum of $350 38-100, to be levied of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of said,Samuel H. Duv.al, jn the hands of .the said Thomfi's Brown and Ellen A. Duval, administrator…
1Opinion of the Court
Bamczell, Justice:
To an action instituted by the plaintiff as assignee of Francis, on *223a judgment recovered against defendants, suggesting a devastavit, they plead — 1st, That they were not indebted. — 2dly, No such record. — 3dly, Reciting the bankrupt law of the United States as to the time of maintaining suits, &c. that the suit was not brought within two years after the decree of bankruptcy, and more than two years after the cause of action accrued. — ‘4th, That the suit was not brought within two years after the decree of bankruptcy, nor within two years after the cause of action accrued.…
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