St. Charles Hotel Co. v. J. L. Tarbox & Co.

The plaintiff seized the stock and fixtures of the defendants, in the basement of the St. Charles Hotel, under an order of provisional seizure, for rents, and some days afterward a further seizure was made of some furniture found off the premises, in the possession of the intervenor.

The evidence shows that the furniture last seized had been transferred and delivered to Hamilton by a datien en paiement, and that lie bad removed them from tbe premises leased before the seizure. Article 2675 of the Civil Code gives to the lessor a right of pledge on the movable effects of the lessee, which are…