Rothschild v. Bowers

This case was before the Supreme Court some years since, and was then remanded for a new trial. See 9 La. 528.

The ancestor of the plaintiffs, who had signed a bond with several other persons as sureties for a Paymaster, paid the whole amount of the judgment recovered in the Federal Court against all the sureties in solido, and this action is against one of the co-sureties and co-defendants for his proportion. .

Previously to the former appeal, the parties entered into a writ*381ten agreement that “ the case should be tried before the Supreme Court upon the petition, answer, and bills of exception,…