New Orleans Canal & Banking Co. v. Beard

This suit was commenced by attachment on the 10th of March, 1860, against the defendant, on two promissory notes which became due and exigible in the year 1849. The defendant being a non-resident, a curator ad hoc was appointed by the court to represent him in the defence of the suit; and he pleaded to the action a general denial, and the prescription of five years.

Afterwards the Louisiana State Bank and one Esther Klein filed separate interventions in the suit, and joined the curator ad hoc in his defence to the action, on the grounds that they were the judgment creditors of the defendant,…