Blackly v. Matlock
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, Buchanan, J. The plaintiffs sued the defendants on a promissory note for $2,240, and attached, at New Orleans, on the 16 February, 1846, as defendants’ property, two flat boats, with their cargoes of pork and beef.
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APPEAL from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, Buchanan, J. The plaintiffs sued the defendants on a promissory note for $2,240, and attached, at New Orleans, on the 16 February, 1846, as defendants’ property, two flat boats, with their cargoes of pork and beef. White, Warner Sf Co. intervened, alleging: That the defendants were indebted to them in or near the sum of $26,000, for acceptances of their drafts, for letters of credit given to them, and for debts of defendants’ which they, the interveners, had become liable for, or had paid ; that the pork and boef had bee'n shipped by…
1Opinion of the Court
The judges delivering their opinions separately.
Eustis, C. J.
The plaintiffs attached, as the property of the defendants, two flatboats, with their cargoes of beef and pork, for a debt of $2,240. The attachment was levied on the lGth of February, 184G, in the parish of Jefferson, While, Warner ¿SfCo., of Philadelphia, intervened, and claimed the beef and pork attached as the holders of a bill of lading, which came to their hands previous to the attachment, viz. on the 13th February. There was a judgment for the plaintiffs against the intervenors, and they have appealed.
The defendants, who were…
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- De L'Homme v. De KerlegandSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1832
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