Lalor v. Wattles
Illinois Supreme Court
This suit was commenced before a Justice of the Peace on the 17th day of May, 1841, by Wattles against Lalor. Wattles recovered a judgment for $81*44, and costs, from from which judgment Lalor took an appeal to the Will Circuit Court. At the May term, A. D. 1843, of said Circuit Court, the bankruptcy of the defendant was suggested and the cause thereupon continued.
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This suit was commenced before a Justice of the Peace on the 17th day of May, 1841, by Wattles against Lalor. Wattles recovered a judgment for $81*44, and costs, from from which judgment Lalor took an appeal to the Will Circuit Court. At the May term, A. D. 1843, of said Circuit Court, the bankruptcy of the defendant was suggested and the cause thereupon continued. At the October term, Lalor filed his plea of bankruptcy and final discharge from all his debts under the United States Bankrupt Law then in force, to which plea Wattles demurred, and assigned the following as his ground of…
1Opinion of the Court
The Opinion of the Court was delivered by
Lockwood, J.
Wattles sued Lalor before a Justice of the Peace, who rendered a judgment in his favor for $84-44. The cause was removed to the Will Circuit Court by appeal, where Lalor plead his discharge, as a bankrupt, under the Act of Congress, passed the 19th August, 1841. To this plea Wattles demurred, on the ground that the voluntary part of the Bankrupt Law violated .the Constitution of the United States. The Circuit Court of Will county sustained the demurrer, and gave judgment for the plaintiff below. To reverse this judgment, the cause is…
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