Insolvent Debtors' Court,...
This was an oppition directed on behalf of Messrs. tusby and Son, members of tbe society, who, it appearcd, were considerable corn-merchants, and had supplied the insolvent, a Paddineton coach.master, with difierent quantities of oats for his horses. Abut November last there was some dispute about the delivery of a quan- tity of oats, and Messre. Rusby's agent having applied for the debt due from the insolvent, his wife said, inhis presence, that her hus- band should never pay a shilling, but should ?o to gaol and get whitewashed first. In December the saselvent transferred his eight coach-horses, harness, and furniture, to his brother for 731, 331. of which he said, he received on the 20th of January, and the remain- ing 40L was to discharge a debt of 401. due tothe brother; the trans- feb, however, was not made at the Stamp-office until February, in which month the insolvent was arrested for lSI., said to have been borrowed of a sheriff"s officer, and petitioned for Tellef under the act. It alsa appeared that the herg were now in the samte stables as usual, the furaiture in the same place as usual, and the insol- vent's family occupied the samepremises. Mr. HEATH, tor the opposing creditors, cpntended that the transfer to the brother was a fraud on all the creditors, on the very eve of insolvent's going to gaol. A Pr. POLLOCK, for the insolvent, argued that, under thecircuam- stances, it was no fraud. The Cuxrs CoGloassrowErt, in delivering the judgmeent of the Court, wandered tbat 'the 'many sentences which had been passed in that coart on insolvents, for fraudulently making away with their property, had not deterred others from acting in the saime manner. They.ought to know, that they could not so easily come there, and, to use their own term, get whitewashed; especially if creditors brought their cases properly before them. The present, he said, was as clear a case of fraud as had ever been brought before the Court; and the judgment therefore wac, that the insolvent sboald not be discharged, until he had been in custody for a. period not ex, ceeLng 15 mo-tnhfrona the filing of his petitiQor and taat is im- prisonment be within the wals. INSOLVBNT DEBTORS- POIJRT. Fnyn1 r Nrif IA THE METROPOLITAN SOCIETY FOR THE OplOSITION OF rRA.unTry-a . ..... - e - - n- .. t..