U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania, 1878

Stover v. Kennedy

Stover v. Kennedy
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania · Decided January 5, 1878 · Cadwalader, McKennan
23 F. Cas. 194; 5 Reporter, 136; 1878 U.S. App. LEXIS 1996
Stover v. Kennedy

Opinion of the Court

THE COURT

(McKENNAN, Circuit Judge, and CADWALADER, District Judge)

held that there having been an agreement to give a judgment to secure the loan at tbe time the loan was made, and the warrant to confess said judgment having been omitted by mistake, it was not a fraud upon the provisions of *195the bankrupt act to carry out the terms of the contract, even after the circumstances of the debtor had become involved, and that the judgment should'not be set aside; and further, that the issue of execution on the said judgment was not a fraudulent procurement of execution within the meaning of the act.

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