Tanner v. King
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT, TÍIE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is an action to recover the one half of a note, and of a mortgage debt, amounting to five hundred and thirty-two dollars, which the plaintiff alleges is due and owing by the defendant, Richard King. That said King resides alternately in two or more parishes, and that he has an establishment in the parish of Terrebonne; is liable to be sued there.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT, TÍIE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is an action to recover the one half of a note, and of a mortgage debt, amounting to five hundred and thirty-two dollars, which the plaintiff alleges is due and owing by the defendant, Richard King. That said King resides alternately in two or more parishes, and that he has an establishment in the parish of Terrebonne; is liable to be sued there. The defendant failed to appear and answer, and judgment by default was rendered against him for the sum claimed. He afterwards obtained an…
1Opinion of the CourtCarleton, J.
Suit having- been instituted under the"above title in this case against the defendant, the sheriff returned on the process of citation, “ served the same, by leaving a copy thereof, and petition with his overseer, Henry Campster, in person, at the domiciL of Richard King, said Richard King being absent from the parish.”
Judgment was taken by default, and being confirmed, defendant presented his petition, alleging its nullity, on the ground that be was not an inhabitant of the parish of Terre-bonne, where the suit was instituted, but that his residence was in the parish of Ouachita; that the…
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