Rothschild v. Ramsay
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PIRST DISTRICT. The plaintiff’s testator, with the defendant, and eight others, became the sureties of one Gibbes, for the faithfull performance of his duties as paymaster to the 1st Regiment of Infantry of the United States’ army. Gibbes being in arrears to the government, suit was instituted against him and his sureties, upon their bond; and judgment obtained, which was wholly satisfied out of the estate of the plaintiff’s testator.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE PIRST DISTRICT. The plaintiff’s testator, with the defendant, and eight others, became the sureties of one Gibbes, for the faithfull performance of his duties as paymaster to the 1st Regiment of Infantry of the United States’ army. Gibbes being in arrears to the government, suit was instituted against him and his sureties, upon their bond; and judgment obtained, which was wholly satisfied out of the estate of the plaintiff’s testator. The petition charged, that by this payment, the plaintiffs beeame subrogated to the rights and priviledges of the United States.…
1Opinion of the Court
Porter, .1.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The ancestor of the plaintiffs, the defendant and several others, became sureties of one Gibbes, who was appointed paymaster to the First Regiment of Infantry in the army of the United States. Suit was brought on this bond, and judgment rendered ~igainst the principal, and sureties.- *279This action is brought to recover- from the defendant his share of the money, which the plaintiffs allege was made out of the estate of their ancestor, in satisfaction of the judgment.
Various grounds of defence have been presented; but the opinion we have formed on…
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