Lesseps v. Ritcher

On the first of February, 1865, plaintiffs, Augusté Lesseps and Alexander Lesseps, leased to defendant a plantation for $36,000.

A part of the rent having been paid, they brought suit against the defendant to recover of him the remainder owing them, and ten per cent, thereon, (the attorney’s fees agreed to be borne by defendant in the contract of lease, on the condition that it became necessary to institute suit for the recovery of their claim), and, they also caused to be provisionally seized, under a writ of provisional seizure, twenty-nine hogsheads of sugar and fifty-two barrels of…