Jacobson v. Sevill

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

This is an appeal taken by the defendant from a judgment of the Court of the Fifth District of New Orleans, by which the succession of Wood was condemned to pay to the plaintiff the sum of seven hundred and fourteen dollars with costs, by reason of a sequestration bond in which Wood in his lifetime became the surety of one Sevill.

The bond was taken under the 280th article of the Code of Practice, which provides that the surety shall be responsible that he, the defendant in the suit, shall not send the movables out of the jurisdiction of…