Graves v. Roy
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE WATTS PRESIDING. This is an action by the acceptors against the drawer of a bill of exchange, alleged to have been accepted and paid for the benefit and accommodation of the defendant: the plaintiffs claim a balance due on the bill of one thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars; and, on several shipments of tobacco to London, the further sum of nine thousand eight hundred dollars, for which they pray judgment.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE WATTS PRESIDING. This is an action by the acceptors against the drawer of a bill of exchange, alleged to have been accepted and paid for the benefit and accommodation of the defendant: the plaintiffs claim a balance due on the bill of one thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars; and, on several shipments of tobacco to London, the further sum of nine thousand eight hundred dollars, for which they pray judgment. Writs of attachment issued, and, among other property, one undivided half of the ship Rob Roy was seized. The defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtEustis, J.
This case comes before us on an appeal from a judgment of the court below, rendered on an intervention of Walter De Lacy, residing in Virginia, claiming, as a trustee, one half the, ship Rob Roy, which had been attached in this suit as the property of the defendant. The judgment was in favor of the trustee, and the attaching creditors have appealed.
The instrument under which the. interest in the ship was conveyed, was executed at Norfolk, in Virginia, on the 20th of May, 1837. The parties to the instrument we shall consider as domiciliated in that state at the date of its execu*457tion the ship…
2Cited by2 opinions
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