Abat v. Michel
Abat v. Michel
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court. The defendant sued on his note of
There was judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant appealed.
We notice two pleas, one in abatement, the other in bar. The first is grounded on the assertion that a respite was legally granted to the defendant. If that be true, (and the defendant cannot complain, if we take his assertion for the truth) the order for staying all proceedings against his person and property, ordinarily granted at the beginning of proceedings to procure a respite, must have ceased with the granting of the respite.
The plea in bar is grounded on the due homologation of these proceedings, which, in the opinion of the defendant, renders the respite granted by the three-fourths of the creditors
The district judge was therefore correct in overruling the plea in abatement, because it contains no allegation that a stay of proceedings had been obtained, and it contains a fact inconsistent with the continuation of such a stay.
The plea in bar was also correctly overruled, because no complete judgment of homologation was shown; none did exist.
We cannot take notice of the effect of the judgment, after the judge’s signature was apposed to it, because this is a new question arising on a new fact, and in passing on it we would not review the jugdement of another court, but pronounce an original one.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment of the district court be affirmed with costs.
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- ABAT v. MICHEL
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