Vigers v. Sainet
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE BUCHANAN PRESIDING. This is an action to recover from the defendant, as a stockholder or co-proprietor of the steam ship Cuba, the amount of the following note given by the commissioners appointed by the company to raise money and act as its agents.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE BUCHANAN PRESIDING. This is an action to recover from the defendant, as a stockholder or co-proprietor of the steam ship Cuba, the amount of the following note given by the commissioners appointed by the company to raise money and act as its agents. “ New-Orleans, October 26th, 1837. Six months after date, the commissioners of the stockholders of the steam ship Cuba, promise to pay to the order of John Whitehead, president of the Eagle Insurance Company, five thousand dollars, value received.” [Signed by the commissioners, and…
1Opinion of the CourtEustis, J.
The plaintiffs sue as the holders of a promissory note, signed by Placide Forstall, Michael Moore, and Joachim Kohn, commissioners; in the body of the note, they are described to be the commissioners of the stockholders of the steam ship Cuba. The petition charges, that the defendant, as one of the stockholders, is liable for the amount of the note, as the commissioners had authority to give notes for, and bind the stockholders by contract, and that the stockholders and owners of the steamer Cuba constitute under outlaws a commercial partnership. The defendant is sued alone, and is sought to…
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