Gordon v. Dick
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT, FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. This is an action of partition, instituted in the Parish Court of New-Orleans, by M. Gordon, Senior and Junior, and the firm of Lizardi & Co., against N. & J. Dick & Co., and several other commercial firms and individuals, for the partition and liquidation of a commercial firm existing between the plaintiffs and defendants, styled the “New-Orleans Tobacco Warehouse Company.”
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APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT, FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. This is an action of partition, instituted in the Parish Court of New-Orleans, by M. Gordon, Senior and Junior, and the firm of Lizardi & Co., against N. & J. Dick & Co., and several other commercial firms and individuals, for the partition and liquidation of a commercial firm existing between the plaintiffs and defendants, styled the “New-Orleans Tobacco Warehouse Company.” The defendants, James Dick & W. J. M‘Lean, representing the firm of N. & J. Dick & Co., excepted to the jurisdiction of the Parish Court, averring that…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The object of this suit is the liquidation and partition of the property of a partnership which has heretofore existed between the parties. Some of the defendants denied the jurisdiction of the Parish Court ; their plea was sustained, and the plaintiffs appealed.
The plea was grounded on the allegation of two pf the surviving partners of the firm of N. & J. Dick & Co., that two of their late partners are dead, and their estates administered in the Court of Probates, by the two surviving partners as testamentary executors.
The partnership, the property of which is sought to be partitioned, was…
2Cited by1 opinion
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