Legal Opinion

McDonald & Co. v. Wells

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 15, 1871No. 3138Published

APPEAL from tbe Ninth District Court, parish of Rapides.

1Opinion of the CourtHowe, J.

This suit was brought to recover from the curator of Mrs. Martha L. Wells, an interdicted person, a bill for board, medical attendance and clothing furnished to her as an inmate of a private asylum for the insane. Upon the trial of the .case and of a rule to show cause why the commission issued to take testimony in Flushing, Queens county, New York, should not be used on such trial, the *190defendant made several objections to tbe use of tbe testimony thus-taken. Tbe objections were in time, for tbe rule was returnable on tbe day of trial. Tbe only objection wbicb had any merit was that tbe…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Thatcher v. GoffSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1839
  2. Marcos v. BarcasSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1850

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