Beal v. Alexander
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Nugent, Turpin, and Watt, are appellants from a judgment rendered against them by the Commercial Court of New Orleans, Watts, J., as sureties of the defendant in an attachment bond. Their signature to the bond was not denied, nor was their any allegation that the judgment against the defendant had been satisfied.
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
A number of bales of cotton having been attached in this case in the hands of Nugent, Turpin, and Watt, who were summoned as garnishees, they bonded them, and judgment was afterwards obtained against the defendant. The plaintiff, on exhibiting a writ of fieri facias issued on the judgment, with a return of nulla bona, and also the bond taken by the sheriff on releasing the cotton, in which the garnishees were sureties for the defendant, obtained a rule on them to show cause why judgment should not be entered against them as sureties on the bond. The sureties, in showing cause, referred to the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dorr v. KershawSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1841
3Cited by2 opinions
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