Edmonson v. Mississippi & Alabama Rail Road
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM TIIE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDCE BUCHANAN PRESIDING. This is an attachment suit by a resident of the state of Mississippi, against the Mississippi and Alabama Rail Road Company ; a corporation established by law, and located at Brandon, in said state.
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APPEAL FROM TIIE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDCE BUCHANAN PRESIDING. This is an attachment suit by a resident of the state of Mississippi, against the Mississippi and Alabama Rail Road Company ; a corporation established by law, and located at Brandon, in said state. The plaintifF alleges, that the defendants are indebted to him in the sum of ten thousand dollars, for this amount of their bank notes, which he holds, and which they refuse to pay in the lawful money of the United States. He prays an attachment against certain property or effects of the defendants in this state, and…
1Opinion of the CourtRost, J.
The plaintiff sued out an attachment against a large amount of bank notes, issued in the usual form by the defendants, who are a corporation having banking privileges, established in the state of Mississippi. Several garnishees were ordered to answer interrogatories on facts and articles, and some of them answered that they had in their possession cotton, to an amount more than sufficient to satisfy the claim.
The defendants came into court, filed a general denial and alleged, that the claim of the plaintiff had been attached at the suit of Hyde & Goodrich. The plaintiff obtained judgment in…
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