Legal Opinion

Fontenot v. Cabot Carbon Co.

District Court, W.D. Louisiana

Decided July 20, 1948No. Civil Action No. 2185PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

PORTERIE, District Judge.

The defendant in this case has filed a motion for a bond for costs to be furnished by the plaintiff. The type of costs security for which is demanded is not of the kind that would be due the clerk of court and the marshal, but is to secure the expenses of the defendant in the taldng of depositions in court, the taking of depositions of witnesses under commission, fees of experts, surveyors, and other scientists, whose services will be needed m the defense of the suit and which plaintiff may be finally condemned to pay. See Sec. 5, La.Act 203 of 1898; La.Act 111 of…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Whitson v. American Ice Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1927
  2. Clair v. Philadelphia Storage Battery Co.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1939
  3. Jones v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1938
  4. Burnett v. JohnstonLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1932

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. William R. Russell v. William CunninghamCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1956

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