Melancon's Heirs v. Duhamel

The plaintiffs having taken out execution in the district court, on the judgment rendered here, at September term 1821, 10 Martin 225, the defendant obtained an injunction, which was, on argument, sustained, and the plaintiffs appealed.

The defendant’s counsel urges that the judgment of this court was for costs only—at all events that no particular sum being mentioned in it, it is too vague and uncertain. He contends that there ought to have been in the judgment an express reference to the petition, in which a definite sum is claimed, or to the proces verbal of the sale annexed thereto, by…