Strawsine v. Salsbury
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Shiawassee. (Newton, J.) Action on a judgment, and for board of the judgment debtor while imprisoned on a body execution. Plaintiff brings error. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLong, J.
This is an action commenced in justice’s court to recover on a judgment previously rendered in a justice’s ■court between the same parties, and for board of the defendant while in prison on an execution on such judgment.
The defendant had been arrested and imprisoned in the •county jail on the former judgment for about six weeks, and his counsel claim that such imprisonment released the defendant from all further liability on such judgment. The plaintiff’s claim is that such imprisonment did not relieve the •debtor from his obligation to pay the judgment.
The suit was commenced one day before…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Cooper v. BigalowNew York Supreme Court · 1823
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