Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1862

Kingman v. Fowls

Kingman v. Fowls
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 15, 1862 · Metcalf
87 Mass. 133

Kingman v. Fowls

Opinion of the Court

Metcalf, J.

There was no breach of the condition of the bond on which this action is brought, until after the first publication of notice that a warrant had issued for the seizure of the defendants’ estate under the insolvent laws. The plaintiff, therefore, could not have proved a claim, on the bond, against the estate of the defendants in their assignee’s hands. It folio*™» *134that the claim is not barred by their discharge. Sleeper v. Miller 7 Cush. 594, note, and other like decisions.

Exceptions overruled.

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