Brown v. Trent
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Western Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF OUACHITA, TIIE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is an action on a bail bond. The defendant became the surety or bail for one F. Fo}7, for the payment of the sum of three hundred and forty-one dollars, and the costs of suit, or such judgment as might be rendered.
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Western Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF OUACHITA, TIIE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is an action on a bail bond. The defendant became the surety or bail for one F. Fo}7, for the payment of the sum of three hundred and forty-one dollars, and the costs of suit, or such judgment as might be rendered. At the May term, 1836, of the Parish Court for the parish of Ouachita, judgment was rendered against Foy, for two hundred and seventy dollars and fifty cents, and notice thereof was served on Foy, by leaving it with a free white person above the age…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The principal question presented in (his case is, whether the notice of judgment was regularly served upon Foy, for whom the defendant was bail; for if it was, then the fieri facias did not issue improvidently, and on a return of nulla bona, the judgment creditor was entitled to his ca. sa.
It appears that Foy had his domicil in the parish, at the time the suit was brought, but that he went away less than a year before judgment was rendered, and (hat the notice of judgment was served on F. Foy, by leaving it with a free white person above the age of fourteen, (say Robert Klady,) at his usual…
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