B. Kittridge & Co. v. Ribas

The plaintiff claims from the defendant damages, and the sum of eight hundred and seventy dollars and fifty cents, the alleged value of three hundred and forty-nine empty molasses barrels belonging to them, which the defendants, the lessor of one G-. B. Dyke, had, by a proceeding in the United States Provisional Court, caused to be provisionally seized, and finally to be sold under final process.

The evidence in this case shows, that Dyke had rented from Ribas, the defendant, a certain warehouse in New Orleans, at a daily rent of two dollars; that Dyke subrented the property to the plaintiffs,…