John Crossley & Sons, Ltd. v. Commissioners of the Louisiana Savings Bank & Safe Deposit Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from tlie Civil District Court for the P: ish of Orleans. Lazarus, J. Miller c(j Finney and Blanc & Butler for Plaintiffs and Ai>pellants : I 1. Plaintiffs are entitled to judgment against defendants for $167,510 36, with interest at five per cent per annum, from October 30, 1875, until paid, on $45,485 36; like interest trom April 15, 1879, on $24,225 00; like interest from April 21, 1879, on $24.250 00; like interest from May 5,1879, on $49,250 00, and like interest…
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APPEAL from tlie Civil District Court for the P: ish of Orleans. Lazarus, J. Miller c(j Finney and Blanc & Butler for Plaintiffs and Ai>pellants : I 1. Plaintiffs are entitled to judgment against defendants for $167,510 36, with interest at five per cent per annum, from October 30, 1875, until paid, on $45,485 36; like interest trom April 15, 1879, on $24,225 00; like interest from April 21, 1879, on $24.250 00; like interest from May 5,1879, on $49,250 00, and like interest on $24,000 00, from June 21,. 1879, until paid for money loaned. 2. Recognizing tbem as pledgees of the $214,208 80 of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Bermtjdhz, C. J.
It is essential for a proper understanding of this-controversy that, at the threshold, a-very concise statement he made of the most glaring facts which the trial has indisputably developed, as also of the pleadings which present the issues submitted. Otherwise, the mind left guideless in the labyrinth before it, could never see its-way through.
Those facts are:
John Crossley & Sons had extensive financial relations with one E.. C. Palmer and the Louisiana Savings Bank and Safe Deposit Company.
They deposited with the institution $50,000,…
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