Meyers v. Block
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP LOUISIANA. These were actions at law in a state court of Louisiana against the obligors on an injunction bond given in an action ' brought in the District Court- of the United States for the District of Louisiana. Judgments for plaintiff, which were affirmed by the Supreme Court of the state on appeal. Defendants sued out these writs of error. The facts which make the Federal question are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
These are suits on injunction bonds given by the plaintiffs in eiTor to the defendants in error respectively,' Friedlander being a surety.
On the 20th of January, 1874, Meyers & Levi, Lehman, Godchaux & Co., and Michael Frank filed a petition in the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana to have their alleged debtors, Block Brothers, a firm composed of Simon and Joseph Block, declared bankrupts; and the petition charged, amongst other things, that the alleged bankrupts had, on the 9th of January preceding, sold a certain store of goods, situated at Opelousas, to…
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