Chiapella v. Couprey
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE PARISH COURT, POR THE PARISH AMD CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. On the 16th July, 1834, the plaintiff obtained a judgment against the defendants, the widow and minors Couprey, . residing in France, by attaching property in New-Órleans. On a sale under execution by the sheriff of the property attached, it produced the sum of eleven thousand five hundred and ten dollars twenty-eight cents, over and above the plaintiff’s demand.
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APPEAL PROM THE PARISH COURT, POR THE PARISH AMD CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. On the 16th July, 1834, the plaintiff obtained a judgment against the defendants, the widow and minors Couprey, . residing in France, by attaching property in New-Órleans. On a sale under execution by the sheriff of the property attached, it produced the sum of eleven thousand five hundred and ten dollars twenty-eight cents, over and above the plaintiff’s demand. The attorney in fact of the tutrix of the minor heirs of Couprey, took a rule on the sheriff to show cause why he should not pay and deliver over the balance of…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
This case commenced by attachment issued against the property of certain minors, residing in the kingdom of France, together with their mother,, regularly confirmed in her office of natural tutrix, by competent authority of that kingdom, where these defendants are all domiciled and reside. The property seized by means of the attachment was regularly sold under a fieri facias, which issued on a judgment rendered in the suit, and produced a sum much more considerable than was necessary to satisfy the judgment and costs, which was received by the sheriff who sold, &c., and is still in his hands.…
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