Lockhead v. Jones

The petitioners in the first petition had had the petitioner in the second petition arrested on an execution for debt. On an application by the debtor to Henry W. Bragg, a master in chancery, to take the oath for the relief of poor debtors, the creditors filed charges of fraud against him. Upon a hearing, the master found the debtor guilty upon the charges of fraud alleging that the debtor contracted the debt with an intention not to pay the same, and sentenced him. From this judgment the debtor appealed, and duly recognized to prosecute his appeal. The master also, being of opinion that the…