Robinson v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This action was brought by the payee against the drawers of an accepted bill of exchange.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This action was brought by the payee against the drawers of an accepted bill of exchange. The plaintiffs aver that the ffrm of Taylor and Klein, established at St. Marks, in the territory of Florida, and composed of Taylor, Klein and Ellis H. Buell, drew their bill of exchange, dated New-Orleans, 4th January, 1831, wherein said firm requested E. H. Buell, six months after date, to pay to the order of the petitioners, four hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty-seven cents. That the bill was duly presented for acceptance, and accepted by…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
This suit was commenced by attachment, and Stilwell and Kimball were summoned as garnishees, who in answer *397to interrogatories acknowledged that they had property in their possession belonging to the defendants, which on further investigation was shown to be twenty-five hales or bags of cotton, shipped by said defendants to the garnishees, from St. Marks, in East Florida, to New-Orleans. Lyon intervened in the suit, and claims the property attached as his own. Judgment was rendered against the defendants in the court below, and the claim of the intervenor dismissed, as not having been…
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