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5 Hill & Den. 559

Coryell v. Davis

New York Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1843

New York Supreme Court · decided 1843-10-15

Case for negligence. After issue joined, the plaintiff obtained his discharge as a bankrupt under the late U. S. bankrupt act; whereupon a commissioner granted an order that the plaintiff file security for costs in twenty days <fcc., and that in the meantime all proceedings be stayed.

Decided 1843-10-15

By the Court, Cower, J.

¶1The 2 R. S. 515, 2d ed. § 1, sub. 3, and § 2, apply in terms to cases where the suit in which security is required was brought for the collection of some debt contracted before the assignment of the plaintiff’s estate. Here the action is for a tort. Tidd lays down the rule that where the action is brought or proceeded in by the bankrupt, certificated or uncertificated, for the benefit of his assignees, security *560may be required. (Tidd, 536, Am. ed. of 1840.) But it seems otherwise, if he sue for his own benefit. (Id.) Thus there is no general principle, independently of the statute, calling for this order. The statute not applying, the order is therefore discharged.

¶2Rule accordingly.

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