H. T. Cottam & Co. v. Comision Reguladora del Mercado de Henequen
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans p Ered D. King, Judge. Suit by H. T. Cottam & Co., Inc., against Comisión Reguladora del Mercado de Henequen, in which the Republic of Mexico intervened and claimed' the property attached. Judgment for'the plaintiff, sustaining the attachment and dismissing the petition of intervention, and the intervener appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
The original plaintiff in this suit, H. T. Cottam & Co., Inc., is_a Louisiana corporation, domiciled in New Orleans. The defendant, Comisión rieguiadora, is a.Maxican corporation,' domiciled in the state of Yucatan. The suit is to recover a large sum of money -represented by written- evidences of debt. The defendant being domiciled outside of the state of Louisiana, a writ of attachment was obtained, by virtue of which the sheriff seized, as the property of the defendant, the steamship Oaxáca, in port at New Orleans. 1
The Republic of Mexico filed a petition of intervention in' the suit,…
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