Buckner v. Baker
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This suit is instituted on a promissory note of three thousand dollars, signed by the defendants, Aaron Baker and others, for part of the price of the steam-boat Scotland. The boat was attached by the plaintiffs, in this city, the residence of defendants being in Cincinnati.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This suit is instituted on a promissory note of three thousand dollars, signed by the defendants, Aaron Baker and others, for part of the price of the steam-boat Scotland. The boat was attached by the plaintiffs, in this city, the residence of defendants being in Cincinnati. The whole of the proceedings are set forth in the following •statement of the district judge, who tried the cause: “The facts of the case are, that Buckner and Robinson sold the steam-boat Scotland to Baker and others, who did not pay for her; an ordinary…
1Opinion of the Court
Carleton, /.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiffs caused the steamer Scotland to be attached, on the 4th November, 1835, and on the 14th of the same month, Bradford and nine other persons employed on the boat, intervened in a joint petition, claiming altogether the sum of six hundred dollars, as a privileged debt. On the 27th an order was obtained for the sale of the boat, and the sheriff directed to deposit the proceeds of sale in court, subject to its further disposition. The counsel appointed to represent the absent defendants, answered by general denial, and a decree having…
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