Friedlander v. Loucks
Friedlander v. Loucks
Opinion of the Court
It is insisted that the discharge of the defendent in insol-” vency is null and void as to the plaintiff’s note, for the reason that the note was not described in the schedule of debts, nor was the plaintiff named as a creditor therein. The defendant’s proceedings in insolvency were under the Insolvency Act of 1850, as amended in 1860. By the amendment to the twenty-fourth section, it was provided that, “ the release and discharge provided for in this section shall not apply to debts and liabilities not mentioned and set forth
The order for the appearance of creditors, the order of notice and the publication thereof, are free, in our judgment, from jurisdictional or other defects. The notice is to all creditors, without distinction, to appear and show cause why , the prayer of the petitioner should hot be granted and the petitioner be discharged from his debts and liabilities, without exception. The plaintiff’s debt was within the scope of the petition, by averments couched in statute language, and the plaintiff, as such creditor, was before the Court through
The questions made here, relate to movements within the jurisdiction rather than the jurisdiction itself, and if available anywhere should have been raised in the proceeding itself.
Judgment affirmed.
Mr. Justice Rhodes expressed no opinion.
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- I. FRIEDLANDER v. GEORGE P. LOUCKS
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- Collateral Attack upon Judgment in Insolvency.—In a collateral attack upon a judgment discharging an insolvent debtor “from all his debts, whether imperfectly described or not described at all, which were contracted before the • surrender of his estate,” etc., no inquiry can be entertained except as to the jurisdiction of the Court. . Jurisdictional Facts in Insolvent Case.—The jurisdictional facts in proceedings to obtain an insolvent’s discharge from his debts are, a petition setting forth substantially such a state of facts as will bring the case within the provisions of the statute, and due publication of the notice to the creditors.