McCormick v. Broadwell
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Watts, J. urged that he was not a party to the surrender of the defendant, and therefore not hound by the proceedings.
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
The plaintiff is appellant from a judgment dis*166charging a rule taken on Adams, Buckner & Co., to make them liable on a bail bond as the sureties of defendant, on a return of non est invenlus to a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum issued against the latter. The defence made below and renewed here, is, that shortly after the judgment obtained by plaintiff, his debtor made a cessio bonorum before the parish court, and obtained from that tribunal a stay of proceedings against his person and property; that a meeting of the creditors of said Broadwell was called, and as none of them appeared,…
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