Rochelle's Heirs v. Bowers
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action by the heirs of the late R. L. Rochelle, against the defendant, George P. Bowers, to recover his proportion of the sum of seven thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars, being the one-half of a judgment which the executors of the ancestor of the plaintiffs paid and satisfied to the United States; which had been obtained against both of them, as sureties in a paymaster’s bond.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action by the heirs of the late R. L. Rochelle, against the defendant, George P. Bowers, to recover his proportion of the sum of seven thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars, being the one-half of a judgment which the executors of the ancestor of the plaintiffs paid and satisfied to the United States; which had been obtained against both of them, as sureties in a paymaster’s bond. The plaintiffs allege that by said payment, they, in right of their ancestor, became subrogated to the rights of the government of the United…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
This case comes up on bills of exception to the opinion of the judge a quo, in which he refused to admit in evidence the record of a judgment which had been obtained in the District Court of the United States, for the district of Louisiana, against the defendant; and a refusal to allow parole proof of the existence of a partnership between him and David Talcot, on whom service of citation was made in that suit. The trial was before a jury in the court below, and the evidence on which the plaintiffs based their action, being refused admittance, they, the jury, found a verdict for the…
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