Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1812

Bartlet v. Prince

Bartlet v. Prince
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided November 15, 1812
9 Mass. 431

Counsel

* Putnam, for the defendants,, Prescott and Story were to have argued for the plaintiff.

Bartlet v. Prince

Opinion of the Court

* But the Court stopped them, saying they were all agreed that the plaintiff was entitled to judgment on the verdict. The Chief' Justice observed that he had always conceived that by insolvency, in the acts of Congress, was to be understood some overt and notorious act, which the laws of the state recognize as an insolvency, (a)

Judgment on the verdict.

{a) [Prince vs. Bartlet, S. C. in Error, 8 Cranch, 431.— United States vs. Hooe, 3 Cranch, 91. — M'Lean vs. Rankin, 3 Johns. Rep. 370.— Watkins vs. Otis, 2 Pick. 88. — Canard vs. The Atlantic Ins. Co., 1 Peters's R. S. C. 438.— Thellusson vs. Smith, 3 Wheat. 396. — Farmers Mechanics Bank. vs. Smith, 6 Wheat. 131. — Ed.]

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