New York Court of Chancery March 3, 1835 (Merrill v. Townsend & Bonney)

The Chancellor.

This suit was instituted for the recovery of money due upon a judgment founded on contract; and if there had been a decree against the-defendants, er either of them, for the payment of any part of the complainant’s debt or costs, the defendants could not have been arrested or imprisoned upon an execution founded on such decree.