Fort Pitt National Bank v. Williams
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil'District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J. ' 1. The petition of Jung, syndic of L. O. Desforges & Co., for the nullity of plaintiff’s judgment herein, shows no cause of action; and our exception to it should have been maintained.
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APPEAL from the Civil'District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J. ' 1. The petition of Jung, syndic of L. O. Desforges & Co., for the nullity of plaintiff’s judgment herein, shows no cause of action; and our exception to it should have been maintained. Plaintiff and defendant have done no act, and entered into no contract open to attack under the insolvent laws of this State. 2. Under the laws of Pennsylvania, fully proved up by the admissions of the parties, every act done and every agreement made between pjaintifi and defendant were of unquestionable validity under the law of their…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
The statement of this case, so far as essential for its decision, may be made in very brief and simple terms.
L. O. Desforges & Oo. was a commercial firm, engaged in the coal trade, and domiciled and doing business in the Oity of New Orleans, of which L. O. Desforges, of New Orleans, and Joseph B. Williams, of Pittsburg, Penn., were members.
In February, 1889, the plaintiff bank and.the Mechanics’ National Bank, of Pittsburg, held a large amount of the unmatured notes of L. O. Desforges & Oo., endorsed by the Grand Lake Goal Oo. Both the firm…
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