Gasquet v. Johnston-Brewsters' Intervening
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST DISTRICT. The plaintiffs sued out a writ of attachment against the propei ty of the defendant, a nonresident, and obtained judgment. The interveners opposed the sale of a quantity of hats, which had been attached, and which were sold by them to the defendant.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST DISTRICT. The plaintiffs sued out a writ of attachment against the propei ty of the defendant, a nonresident, and obtained judgment. The interveners opposed the sale of a quantity of hats, which had been attached, and which were sold by them to the defendant. In their petition they charge, that the defendant represented himself as authorized to draw on the house of Fisher, Burke It appeared from the evidence that the defendant had obtained from Fisher, Burke «fe Watson, a letter of credit, which he was afterwards verbally requested by them to return. To this…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
Brewster et al. intervened, in this case, to claim a quantity of hats, part of the property attached, sold by them to the defendant, on the ground of fraud used by the latter in obtaining them. Their claim was disallowed, and they appealed.
The facts of the case are these: — Johnson, who had obtained from Fisher, Burke & Watson, of this city, a letter of credit for the appellant at New-York, lost by some means the confidence of these friends of his, and they requested him not to make use of the letter, but return it. To this he assented; but found his way to New-York, where, on producing the…
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