New-Orleans Building Co. v. Lawson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JÜDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action against the defendant, late president of the New-Orleans Building Company, to recover from him the sum of one thousand dollars, which the plaintiffs allege he received of their funds, and which he refuses to pay over to' them. - The defendant denied that he had any funds belonging to the plaintiffs, in his hands; that the sum of one thousand dollars claimed in the petition, he paid as…
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JÜDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action against the defendant, late president of the New-Orleans Building Company, to recover from him the sum of one thousand dollars, which the plaintiffs allege he received of their funds, and which he refuses to pay over to' them. - The defendant denied that he had any funds belonging to the plaintiffs, in his hands; that the sum of one thousand dollars claimed in the petition, he paid as president of the Building Company, to Isaac T. Preston, for professional services' rendered said company, on an account…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiffs complain that the first judge erred, in refusing to them judgment for a sum of one thousand dollars, which the defendant, their former president, received for them. He resisted the claim, on the ground, that he had paid that sum to Preston, the attorney of the plaintiffs, for professional services. This payment, the professional services, *36and their value, are admitted; but it is contended, that the payment was made without an order from the board of directors. It is, however, in proof, that it was made on the ygj.jjgj direction from three directors, this number constituting the…
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