Germania Savings Bank v. Peuser
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Tissot J. Plaintiff seized, under writ of attachment, in the hands of G-ustave Peusor, certain money belonging to Geo. Peuser, who had absconded. The answers of Gustavo Peusor were traversed, and traverse tried before a jury, who found that the money was subject to the attachment.
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APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Tissot J. Plaintiff seized, under writ of attachment, in the hands of G-ustave Peusor, certain money belonging to Geo. Peuser, who had absconded. The answers of Gustavo Peusor were traversed, and traverse tried before a jury, who found that the money was subject to the attachment. The verdict of the jury and judgment of the court are fully sustained by the evidence, and their verdict upon a question of fact will not be set aside except upon conclusive evidence that it is erroneous. ¡Fox vs. Jones, 39 A. 929 ; 31 A. 432; 22 A. 31;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
Plaintiff, a creditor of George Peuser, an absconding-defaulter, took out a writ of attachment against him under which Gustave Peuser was made a garnishee.
In answer to interrogatories, Gustave Peuser disclosed the facts-that, on the eve of his flight, bis brother, George Peuser, had transferred to his name certain shares of city railroad stock, which he had sold and received therefor the price of thirty-three hundred dollars. This sum, he says, “I subsequently deposited in the Germania Savings Depository in my name, under an agreement with…
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