Evangeline Iron Works v. Lyons

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff, Evangeline Iron Works, Ltd., alleging the defendant E. J. Smith1 had assisted and encouraged its former employee and officer Lucius L. Lyons to illegally obtain funds upon checks payable to plaintiff’s order, with full knowledge the funds thus fraudulently secured were not being used for plaintiff’s business or benefit, but, instead, for the gambling and drinking of Lyons in Smith’s place of business, instituted this suit against Lyons and Smith seeking an in solido judgment against them in the sum of $40,000, with recognition and enforcement of a…