Branch Bank of Mobile v. Murphy

It is unnecessary to consider any of the assignments of error, but those which question the regularity of the decree of the Court, declaring the estate of the deceased insolvent. The decree was made on the 10th February, 1843; on the 9th February, preceding, an act was passed “ to amend the laws now in force in relation to insolvent estates,” which materially changed the mode of proceeding in such cases, but the proceedings were had in conformity with the former law. The counsel for the defendant in error, maintains, that as it was impossible that the law should have been known in Clarke…