Diaz v. Compania Comercial Mexicana

In the month of August, 1919, for a debt due it by Manuel Sales Diaz, of Campeche, Mexico, the Compañía Comercial Mexicana seized, by attachment process issued by the civil district court, of the city of New Orleans, the schooner or pilot boat’ Cuatro Hermanos, as the property of its debt- or. The captain of the seized boat filed an affidavit setting forth that it was owned by the minor children of Manuel Sales Diaz. The sheriff thereupon called upon the attaching creditor to release the seizure or to furnish an indemnity bond. The attaching creditor elected to maintain the seizure and…