Connelly's Case

U.S. District Court

Decided October 15, 1823

U.S. District Court · decided 1823-10-15

John Connelly applied to the Hon. J. S.. Morsell, one of the judges of this court, on the 22d of November, 1823, for the benefit of the insolvent act of the 3d of March, 1S03-(2 Stat 237), and the usual notice was given for the creditors to attend on the first Monday of December, when Michael Murray, one of the creditors of the insolvent, filed allegations under the 7th section of the act, charging, 1. “That the said Connelly was refused heretofore, namely, on the first…

Decided 1823-10-15

¶1But

THE COURT

¶2was of opinion that the five last allegations now filed were too vague and immaterial to deprive the debtor of the benefit of the act, if proved, and that the judgment of the judge who refused to discharge him was not a conclusive bar to his present application for relief.