Page:Federal Reporter, 1st Series, Volume 5.djvu/802

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T'9.9 FBDEBAL BBPQSTEB. �"^e-ûvi^nàed, naHc.pro tim'cy iî any amendaient is aeemed njSefessary to make ,the proceedîngs: regulais, o ^ The application to vaoate and set aside^the iadjudieation is denied.'-' o.m ■.. . .. ' ; . ■■ ■ .'.; -iv /.'.-:r ���)■ ���EoiZU, ElOKBEMAN* ■; {Uircuit Court, E. ï>. Missouri. Janùary 24, .1881.) ���1. DïSCHABGE KT rBAIinBCRpUTpT--FOBBIGlî CREDITOR— DoMKSTIC FoEUM.'. �, A dischai'ge in bankruptcy can be pleaded to the suit of a foreigU' credltor in the do'mestic forum. — [Ed. �Demarrer to Plea of Discharge. = / i ■ 'i; �[iMyers d Ametein, îot A&vimtvQV. : , m �Marshall e Barclay, montra, ' • > ■ �-:[Eeeat,;DJ J.riA demurrer is interposed to the answer of Biekerman, who pleads discharge in baribruptey. The plain- tif is an aliennon-reaident, insis^ting updn his^^demand against the defendant, dnd that a discharge in bankruptcy nttder the la*$ bf the United States does notrelieve ithe defendant of plaintiff's demand. Theriproposition inrolved pertains to interniational la"Wa, condernitig which there; ought to be no disooiid. , If the'oases'pf ineolvent lawsiasaniong the states of this country» .iwter adse, are consideredj- the fullest espo-^ sition of which is given in Cook v. Moffet, 5 Ho-w. 307, or, aa to foreign demandsj in Murray Vi De Rotterhem, Q Johni Ch. 52, it ynïi be agcertained that tbfe rule is this: An insblvent. law, or bankrupt law, has no; eitraterritorial force. If th& fojeign party sues, despite theinsolvent orhankrupt discharge, in the law of the forum, he mnst aôdept the rulea pertàining thçrpto, with the exceptiffiQof «aeh modifications as spring from the ooraplex nàtare of ouï atate aiad federal governiaentfl. A» the laws of the federai! govemment in hankruptôy dre aupreme,, a ai&pfeaige theiîeund«iïi9 eufficient, ^hether the creditor ia a citizen of a state other than that: iiilyhich the ;bankrupt is a resident, or is an alien, a resident of a foreign country. Of ����