Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. v. Dresser
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Porter Parker, Judge. Action by the Hibernia Bank & Trust Company against John M. Dresser, with the J. M, Dresser, Company Limited, as garnishee. On rule to show cause why interrogatories should not be taken for confessed. Rule dismissed, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
[1] The plaintiff bank, having obtained judgment against the defendant, J. M. Dresser, garnisheed the J. M. Dresser Company, Limited. The president of this company answered the interrogatories virtute officii and also under authority of the hereinafter referred to resolution of the board of directors. The plaintiff bank traversed the answers, and asked that the interrogatories be taken for confessed, and that the garnishee be condemned to pay the debt. Thereafter the plaintiff bank voluntarily dismissed the garnishment proceeding. Two years later it renewed it and again the same president,…
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