Crygier v. Long , 1 Johns. Cas. 393 ( 1800 )

Per Curiam.

If a person be arrested before the debt is due, he should apply, in the first instance, to the court, or to a judge at his chambers, to be discharged, and not put in bail and plead to the action, The defendant, in this case, having filed bail, and pleaded in chief, comes too late to make this applicationt^(a)

Rule refused.

(a) Gra. Prac. 2d ed. 159.