Rea v. Burt
Supreme Court of Louisiana
This is an action to recover one thousand dollars from the defendants Burt & Knox, as lessees of the plaintiff’s cotton press, for four months’ arrearages of rent, with the lessor’s privilege on one hundred and fifty bales of cotton, stored therein to be re-pressed. Rhodes & Peters and others, intervened and claimed the cotton as belonging to them, and which .they denied to be subject to the plaintiff’s lien or privilege for arrearages of rent due by the lessees.
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This is an action to recover one thousand dollars from the defendants Burt & Knox, as lessees of the plaintiff’s cotton press, for four months’ arrearages of rent, with the lessor’s privilege on one hundred and fifty bales of cotton, stored therein to be re-pressed. Rhodes & Peters and others, intervened and claimed the cotton as belonging to them, and which .they denied to be subject to the plaintiff’s lien or privilege for arrearages of rent due by the lessees. On these pleadings, and the facts appearing substantially on the face of them, the cause was submitted to the court. The district…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
In this case the plaintiff claims one thousand dollars due to him for the rent of a cotton' press and stores, and charges the defendant Knox, assisted by other persons, with a forcible and illegal removal from the premises of a certain quantity of cotton amounting to one hundred and fifty bales, which had been there placed for the purpose of storage and *511re-pressing; alleging that the removal was made with the intention of defeating his privilege as lessor, on said cotton, and prayed an order for provisional seizure, &c., which was granted. Rhodes & Peters and others intervened and claimed the…
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