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Shreveport Mut. Bldg. Ass'n v. Whittington

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided October 6, 1916No. 22107PublishedCited by 20 opinions

Case Certified from Court of Appeal, Second Circuit. Suit or concursus proceeding by the Shreveport Mutual Building Association against J. C. Whittington, contractor, his surety, and four materialmen.

1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.

The judges of the Court of Appeal of said circuit have presented for our consideration and instructions a question of law arising in the above-entitled cause, before them on appeal from the First judicial district court in and for the parish of Caddo.

The said judges state, in substance, that the suit is a concursus proceeding instituted under the provisions of Act 221 of 1914, by the plaintiff, owner of a building constructed by one J. C. Whittington, under the usual building contract, against said contractor, and his surety, and four certain furnishers of material who had caused their…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Cross v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1917

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  4. Haynesville Lumber Co. v. CaseySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1928
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