Turpin v. Reynolds
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL PROM THE PARISH COURT, POR THE PARISH AND CITY OP NEW-ORLEANS. The plain tiff instituted suit against the'defendant, Reynolds, on his check for three thousand dollars, drawn on the Union Bank of Mississippi, and duly protested for non-payment, and attached two hundred and fourteen bales of cotton, in the hands of Hobson & Gooch, commission merchants in New-Orleans. They were duly cited as garnishees, and required to answer interrogatories.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL PROM THE PARISH COURT, POR THE PARISH AND CITY OP NEW-ORLEANS. The plain tiff instituted suit against the'defendant, Reynolds, on his check for three thousand dollars, drawn on the Union Bank of Mississippi, and duly protested for non-payment, and attached two hundred and fourteen bales of cotton, in the hands of Hobson & Gooch, commission merchants in New-Orleans. They were duly cited as garnishees, and required to answer interrogatories. The garnishees intervened, and alleged, that they' had received the two hundred and fourteen bales of cotton, attached, on the 19th…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
The plaintiff sued out an attachment against defendant, a non-resident, and cited, as garnishees, Hobson & Gooch, commission merchants, trading in-Vicksburg, in -the state of Mississippi, under the firm of “ Gooch & Hobson,” and in this place, under the commercial name and firm of “ Hobson & Gooch.” The latter answered, averring, that they had nothing in their possession belonging to the defendant, unless it should be considered that two hundred and fourteen bales of cotton, attached in their hands by the sheriff, were the property of defendant, which they denied, and they annexed to their…
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- State v. New-Orleans Navigation Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1822
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