Rogers v. Hendsley
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PllOM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This suit commenced by injunction. The plaintiffs, about the beginning of the year 1829, put sundry notes, debts, and accounts into the hands of Luke Lesassier, an attorney at’ law, to collect, for their benefit and use. These claims had been transferred to the plaintiffs, to indemnify them on account of a suretyship to William and John Simons.
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APPEAL PllOM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This suit commenced by injunction. The plaintiffs, about the beginning of the year 1829, put sundry notes, debts, and accounts into the hands of Luke Lesassier, an attorney at’ law, to collect, for their benefit and use. These claims had been transferred to the plaintiffs, to indemnify them on account of a suretyship to William and John Simons. Among the debts placed in Lesassier’s hands for collection, was one on Jacob Bogard for $250. It was evidenced by a note payable to William Simons. Bogard, to get further…
1Opinion of the CourtPorter, J.
The plaintiffs placed in the hands of two gentlemen of the bar, who were associated in professional business, a note, for r . eollection. One of them extended the credit given on it, and took a new obligation in his own name. The defendants, who are creditors of this person, levied an execution on the debt which he had thus made payable to himself, and 1 were about selling it. The plaintiffs prevented them from doing “so by an injunction. The court, on hearing the parties, made the injunction perpetual, and the defendants ap-nealed - • ^ .. VVe do not feel compelled to examine whether, under…
2Cited by1 opinion
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