Legal Opinion

Morgan's Louisiana & T. R. & S. S Co. v. Stewart

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided June 10, 1907No. 16,601PublishedCited by 23 opinions

Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Walter Byers Sommerville, Judge. Action by Morgan’s Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Company against Henry I. Stewart. On trial of a rule to dissolve an attachment issued in the action, the court made the rule absolute and dissolved the attachment, and plaintiff appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

Statement of the Case.

NICHOLLS, J.

On the 4th of March, 1907, plaintiff filed a petition in the civil district court, in which it alleged that one Henry I. Stewart, who lives in this city' and state, is indebted to it in the full sum of $36,783, with interest and costs as hereinafter claimed, for this, to wit: That the said Henry I. Stewart, conspiring with one or more persons in the employ of petitioner, but to your petitioner at present unknown, has fraudulently presented hills purporting to represent the cost' of ties furnished to this petitioner from time to time, between the dates of…

2Cases cited23 opinions

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  5. Baum v. TonkinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1885

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3Cited by23 opinions

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