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2 D.C. 454

Crawford's Case

Decided April 15, 1824

Thomas Crawford was a petitioner to the Hon. James S. Morsel], one of the judges of this Court, for the benefit of the insolvent act of the District of Columbia, of the 3d of March, 1803. [2 Stat. at Large, 237.] Peter Brady, one of his creditors, appeared by Mr. Wallach, his attorney, and orally objected to the discharge of the debtor, alleging that he had before applied for the benefit of the act, and upon certain allegations being filed against him, had withdrawn his…

Decided 1824-04-15

The judge (Hon. J. S. Morsell,)(Cranch, C. J., concurring, and Thruston, J., doubting,)

¶1was of opinion that the abandonment of the first petition is no bar to his present application. Thruston, J., however, concurred in the opinion that if the petitioner be refused a discharge because he had given a preference within a year before his application, it is no bar to his subsequent application after the expiration of the year next after the prefer-' ence given.

¶2The judge (Morsell,) also decided that a preference given more than a year preceding his present application for relief, was not a bar thereto. The judges all concurred in deciding that all the allegations of disposing of property with intent to defraud his creditors were too vague, and that the defendant was not bound to plead to them so as to make up an issue thereon.

¶3The debtor was then discharged by the judge.

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