Oakey v. Mississippi & Alabama Railroad
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE BUCHANAN PRESIDING. This is an action instituted by attachment on fifteen promissory notes, issued by the defendants at their banking house in the town of Brandon, in the state of Mississippi, commonly called bank notes, amounting to eleven thousand dollars; and property, money and effects attached, in the hands of Harris, Lyons & Co., E. Yorke, and J. Miuturn, in New-Orleans, to a very large amount, who were…
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE BUCHANAN PRESIDING. This is an action instituted by attachment on fifteen promissory notes, issued by the defendants at their banking house in the town of Brandon, in the state of Mississippi, commonly called bank notes, amounting to eleven thousand dollars; and property, money and effects attached, in the hands of Harris, Lyons & Co., E. Yorke, and J. Miuturn, in New-Orleans, to a very large amount, who were summoned as garnishees. They answered the interrogatories propounded to them, touching the property and effects of the…
1Opinion of the CourtRost, J.
*569The plaintiffs proceeded against the defendants by attachment, and prayed that Edward Yorke and John Minturn might be cited as garnishees, and compelled to answer certain interrogatories contained in their petition. The garnishees answered, and filed with their answer their general account current with the defendants, showing a balance of sixty-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars eighty-six cents, due in money by the said garnishees to the said defendants, at the time the attachment was levied. They further answered that they had sold six hundred and sixty-two bales of cotton,…
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