Eugster & Co. v. La Compagnie Commerciale de Transports a Vapeur Français

This is an action for damages for alleged non-performance and breach by the defendant Company of contracts of affreightment.

*164The original petition, upon its face, appears to be the “petition of Eugster & Co., doing business i'n the City of New Orleans, composed of Fidele Eugster, who temporarily resides in said City.” Throughout the body of the petition it purports to be the petition of “petitioners” in the plural. In an affidavit, at the foot of the petition, “F. Eugster, being duly sworn, doth depose and say, he is a member of Eugster & Co., and has read the foregoing petition, that all the…