Bell v. Norwood
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES, FOR THE PARISH OF EAST FELICIANA. This is an action to recover the balance of a mercantile account by the plaintiff, who was a commission merchant in New-Orleans, against the defendant, as administrator of the succession of Abel T. Norwood, deceased, in which the former claims a balance of five thousand four hundred and seventy-one dollars and thirty-one cents, for moneys advanced, services rendered as commission merchant, for cash paid on…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES, FOR THE PARISH OF EAST FELICIANA. This is an action to recover the balance of a mercantile account by the plaintiff, who was a commission merchant in New-Orleans, against the defendant, as administrator of the succession of Abel T. Norwood, deceased, in which the former claims a balance of five thousand four hundred and seventy-one dollars and thirty-one cents, for moneys advanced, services rendered as commission merchant, for cash paid on acceptances, commissions, guarantees, cash laid out and expended for the use of the deceased, for goods, wares and…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
This is an action instituted in the Probate Court, against the administrator of A. T. Norwood’s estate, in which he claims the sum of five thousand four hundred and seventy-one dollars, for moneys advanced to the intestate in his life-time, for services rendered as commission merchant, for costs paid on acceptances for him, and as guarantor to one Neill, as well as for goods and merchandise sold and delivered to him, from June, 1831, to June, 1832, according to an account current annexed to the petition. That account exhibits a balance on a former account of about seven hundred dollars. It…
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