Jex v. Keary
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Second District Court of New Orleans, — The defendant, duly cited, appeared and excepted to the jurisdiction of the Court, as follows: “On the ground that his domicile is in the parish of Avoyelles, and that he is not amenable to the jurisdiction of this Court; and he denies that the clause in the act of mortgage relied on by the plaintiff to sustain the jurisdiction of this Court has any legal and binding effect.” This exception was sustained by the Court.
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APPEAL from the Second District Court of New Orleans, — The defendant, duly cited, appeared and excepted to the jurisdiction of the Court, as follows: “On the ground that his domicile is in the parish of Avoyelles, and that he is not amenable to the jurisdiction of this Court; and he denies that the clause in the act of mortgage relied on by the plaintiff to sustain the jurisdiction of this Court has any legal and binding effect.” This exception was sustained by the Court. It seems, indeed, that no argument should be needed in a case so plain, of such common-occurrence, in presence of…
1Opinion of the CourtLabatjve, J.
The two notes sued upon were executed by the defendant,, a resident of the parish of Avoyelles, on the 18th day of November, 1856, pa. able, respectively, on the 12th and 15th November, 1860. This suit was filed and instituted on the 5th August, 1861, before the Second District .Court of New Orleans, when the defendant was still residing in the said parish of Avoyelles. In order to secure the payment of said promissory notes, and others executed on the same day, to the amount of $75,000, the defendant consented and gave a special mortgage by public act, before a notary public, in New Orleans,…
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