Beauregard v. Case
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe District of Louisiana. Case, as receiver of tbe First National Bank of New Orleans, brought an action against Beauregard, May, and' Grabara, tó recover the sum of $237,008.39, alleging that said defendants were commercial partners engaged in carrying on the New Orleans and Carrolton Bailroad; and that the jpartnership account, which was kept in said bank in the name of Beauregard as lessee, was largely overdrawn, and…
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe District of Louisiana. Case, as receiver of tbe First National Bank of New Orleans, brought an action against Beauregard, May, and' Grabara, tó recover the sum of $237,008.39, alleging that said defendants were commercial partners engaged in carrying on the New Orleans and Carrolton Bailroad; and that the jpartnership account, which was kept in said bank in the name of Beauregard as lessee, was largely overdrawn, and the money applied to the use of the partnership; that May, while acting as president of said bank, and to make a nominal…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, as receiver of the First National Bank of New Orleans, against the defendants, Beauregard, May, and Graham, to recover a sum exceeding two hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars, alleged to have been overdrawn from the bank on their account. Three questions are presented by the record for our determination: First, whether the agreement entered into by the defendants on the 18th of April, 1866, created a copartnership between them in operating the New Orleans and Carrolton Bailroad, by which the defendant Beauregard became liable with them for…
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