Ornstein v. Hickerson

CAILLOUET, District Judge.

This suit was originally brought on May 11, 1933, by Hugo Ornstein, lately operating and doing business as a coffee exporter under the name Ornstein & Company, out of Rio Janeiro, United States of Brazil, but he having died in the meanwhile and Dora Ornstein, wife of Adolf Gottlieb, having been judicially recognized as his “sole and universal heir”, in keeping with the terms of his last will and testament, the proceedings have been carried through trial for and in her interest.

The defendant William H. Hickerson, Jr., domiciled and doing business in New Orleans, in…