Cressey v. Meyer

Citations

• 138 U.S. 525
• 11 S. Ct. 387
• 34 L. Ed. 1018
• 1891 U.S. LEXIS 2108

Syllabus

<p>The right of a sovereign to enforce all obligations clue to it, without regard to statutes of limitation, or to the defence of laches, does not pass to its creditors; and its intervention and appearance in a suit, in the nature of a garnishee process,brought by one of its creditors as against its debtors, does not give to such creditor its sovereign exemptions from liability to such defences.</p>