Legal Opinion

Parsons v. Bedford, Breedlove, & Robeson

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 18, 1830PublishedCited by 606 opinions

ERROR to the eastern district of.Louisiana. This suit was originally brought in the parish .court oí Ne'w Orleans by the défendants in error, by a petition for an attachment against the property of the defendant in the suit; apd wás removed into the district' courtof the United States for the eastern'district of Louisiana, the defendant being, a citizen of- the state of Massachusetts; ; The object, of the suit was the recovery of the amount of certain sales of tobacco,, made…

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ERROR to the eastern district of.Louisiana. This suit was originally brought in the parish .court oí Ne'w Orleans by the défendants in error, by a petition for an attachment against the property of the defendant in the suit; apd wás removed into the district' courtof the United States for the eastern'district of Louisiana, the defendant being, a citizen of- the state of Massachusetts; ; The object, of the suit was the recovery of the amount of certain sales of tobacco,, made by the-plaintiffs to a certain Eben Fiske, represented in the petition, to, be the agent'and. factor of the defendant;…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story

This is a writ of error to the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana.

The facts., disclosed on the record are substantially as follows:

The suifc-'was originally commenced by an attachment, brought in.the parish court of New Orleans, and removed, on the petition of defendant, into the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana: the. plaintiffs being citizens of Louisiana, and the defendant a citizep of Massachusetts.

' The petition of the plaintiffs set out the ground of . their action to be certain sales of tobacco, made by them…

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