Commercial Bank v. Markham

The judgment of the court was pronounced , by

Edstis, C. J.

The plaintiffs have appealed from a decree of the Fourth District Court of New Orleans, quashing certain proceedings in garnishment. These proceedings were had by virtue of an order rendering certain judgments, ohtained in the State of Mississippi, executory, under article 746 of the Code of Practice.

In the case of Scott v. Duke, ante p. 253, we held that the law authorizing executory process on judgments obtained in another State of the Union, or in a foreign country, was repealed by the act of 1846. The process 'was considered as a…