Supreme Court of the United States, 1832

Boyle v. Zacharie

Boyle v. Zacharie
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided January 1, 1832 · Marshall
31 U.S. 348; 8 L. Ed. 423; 6 Pet. 348; 1832 U.S. LEXIS 479 (United States Reports)

Boyle v. Zacharie

Opinion

Mr Chief Justice Marshall said.

The judges who were in the minority of the court upon the general question as to .the constitutionality of state-insolvent'laws, concurred in the opinion of Mr Justice Johnson in the case of Ogden v. Saunders. That opinion is therefore to be deemed the opinion, of the other-judges who. assented to that judgment. Whatever principles are established in that opinion, are to be considered no longer .openTor. controversy, but the settled, law of the court.

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