Legal Opinion
Harper v. Citizens' Bank
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided January 9, 1899No. 12,720PublishedCited by 5 opinions
ON APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Bightor, J.
1Opinion of the Court
Nicholls, C. J., and Miller, J., disenting, filed separate opinions-, in this case.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Blanchard, J.
In 1892 a small sugar plantation in the parish of' St. Bernard, known as “Creedinoor,” was owned jointly by plaintiffs- and defendants. That is to say, Mrs. Charles W. Harper (then the widow of W. P. Green) and Mrs. 'Charles H. Stewart, plaintiffs, owned an undivided half, in the proportion of two-thirds to the former and one-third to the latter; and the Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana and the State National Bank of New Orleans, defendants, owned equally the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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