Deloach v. Jones
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COMMERCIAL COURT OP NEW ORLEANS. This suit commenced by attachment. The plaintiff residing in Tennessee, filed his affidavit the 11th April, 1840, and on the 13th his petition, alleging the defendant residing in Arkansas, was indebted to him in the sum of $3,500, which he had to pay as endorser, the 13th April, 1837. He prayed judgment for this sum and for an attachment against the property of said defendant in the hands of Lee & Co., whom he cited as…
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APPEAL PROM THE COMMERCIAL COURT OP NEW ORLEANS. This suit commenced by attachment. The plaintiff residing in Tennessee, filed his affidavit the 11th April, 1840, and on the 13th his petition, alleging the defendant residing in Arkansas, was indebted to him in the sum of $3,500, which he had to pay as endorser, the 13th April, 1837. He prayed judgment for this sum and for an attachment against the property of said defendant in the hands of Lee & Co., whom he cited as garnishees, and propounded interrogatories. They admitted they had 308 bales of cotton, made on the plantation of the…
1Opinion of the CourtSimon, J.
delivered the. opinion of the court.
In this case, an attachment was issued at the suit of a resident of the State of Tennessee, against a citizen of the State of Arkansas. Thomas B. Lee & Co. of the city of New-Orleans were made garnishees, and answered the interrogatories propounded to them by the plaintiff, as follows : 1st. that they did receive 208 bales of cotton marked E. B. per steamer Campté. 2d. That they believe the cotton was made in the *449State of Arkansas, and was shipped, as the annexed hill of ]ading- shows, by E. Britton. 3d. (after objecting- to answer this interrogatory) they…
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