Monroe Grocer Co. v. J. A. Perdue & Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Ouachita; James Pemberton Madison, Judge. Action by the Monroe Grocer Company, Limited, against J. A. Perdue & Co., Limited, in which action the Southern Development Company was summoned as garnishee. Judgment for plaintiff, and the garnishee appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
Plaintiffs are the creditors in the sum of $2,100 of the J. A. Perdue *377& Co., Limited, contractors, who left the state a short time before suit was brought. They proceeded against their debtors by attachment.
As they were absent, a curator ad hoc was appointed to represent the latter.
Plaintiffs at the time obtained a writ of garnishment, and made the Southern Development Company a party garnishee to the suit, to which interrogatories were propounded.
The Southern Development Company, through its president, answered the interrogatories and denied indebtedness to J. A. Per-due & Co.; stated that…
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