Jumper v. Moore
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to quash a record of a disclosure commissioner relating to the disclosure and discharge of a poor debtor under the provisions of Chapter 114 of the Revised Statutes.
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This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to quash a record of a disclosure commissioner relating to the disclosure and discharge of a poor debtor under the provisions of Chapter 114 of the Revised Statutes. The sole question presented is whether under Chapter 114, sec. 28, R. S., a poor debtor should have been required to assign to his judgment creditor, whose original debt was for necessaries, a claim for $8.00, the only sum due him as wages for his personal labor earned within one month next preceding the date of his disclosure. The commissioner who took the poor debtor’s disclosure…
1Opinion of the CourtKing, J.
This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to quash a record of a disclosure commissioner relating to the disclosure and discharge of a poor debtor under the provisions of chapter 114 of the Revised Statutes. The case is reported to the law court upon the petition, answer, and agreed statement of facts.
The question presented is whether under the provisions of sec. 28, c. 114, R. S., a poor debtor should have been required to assign to his judgment creditor, whose original debt was for necessaries, a claim for $8.00 which was the only sum due him as wages for his personal labor earned within…
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