Hagan v. Brent
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT PRESIDING. The petitioners John Hagan and Thomas Mellon, merchants of New-Orleans, trading under the firm bf Hagan and Mellon, claim in their petition of the defendant W. L. Brent, $1346. 56 with 10 per cent interest from July 1. 1S~6, until paid. They aUedge that they forwarded to Wm. & 3. Moore of Opelousas, a claim against Miles & Vaughan of St. Martin.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT PRESIDING. The petitioners John Hagan and Thomas Mellon, merchants of New-Orleans, trading under the firm bf Hagan and Mellon, claim in their petition of the defendant W. L. Brent, $1346. 56 with 10 per cent interest from July 1. 1S~6, until paid. They aUedge that they forwarded to Wm. & 3. Moore of Opelousas, a claim against Miles & Vaughan of St. Martin. The Moores handed the claim over to W. L. Brent Esqr. for collection, as an attorney at law ~who settled it, by taking two notes for $624.62 each, signed by S.…
1Opinion of the Court
Mathew J.
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This suit is prosecuted by the plaintiffs to recover from the defendants a certain sum of money, as having been collected for them by the latter, in his capacity as Attorney at Law, &c.
The claim is made for-the sum of $1346. 56 — one half of which seems by the evidence to have been paid over by the plaintiffs, who recovered a judgment for the balance in the Court below, from which the defendant appealed.
It is shewn by the testimony of the case, that the Attorney after receiving the evidences of the plaintiffs’ claim for the whole sum as above…
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