Wood v. Neale
This text of 71 Mass. 538 (Wood v. Neale) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
On the presentation of this petition, the court entertained some doubt whether a hearing before commissioners of insolvency appointed by the judge of probate on the estate of a deceased person was of such a nature as to afford a creditor attending it protection from arrest. But upon the authorities cited, we are of opinion that the protection extends to all legal tribunals of a judicial character, whether strictly courts of record or not, recognized by the laws of the State, and having power to pass upon the rights of persons attending them.
Prisoner discharged.
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