Legal Opinion

Dejona v. Steamboat Osceola

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided December 15, 1865PublishedCited by 1 opinion

it PPEAL from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, Eggleston, J. The plaintiff claims $510 and interest, for services of her minor son, Constance, rendered to defendants. The judgment of the lower court is fully supported by the evidence and the law, and should be affirmed. As to defendant’s plea to the jurisdiction, see C. P. Art. 285, § 3, and Art. 289; 5 An. R. pp. 349 to 353. Plaintiff’s privilege : See C. C. 3204, par. 6, and Acts 1858, p.

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it PPEAL from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, Eggleston, J. The plaintiff claims $510 and interest, for services of her minor son, Constance, rendered to defendants. The judgment of the lower court is fully supported by the evidence and the law, and should be affirmed. As to defendant’s plea to the jurisdiction, see C. P. Art. 285, § 3, and Art. 289; 5 An. R. pp. 349 to 353. Plaintiff’s privilege : See C. C. 3204, par. 6, and Acts 1858, p. Ill, 81. As to the pretended abandonment by plaintiff’s son, see Acts 1858, pp. 142 and 143, 2, and R. p. 19. The steward permitted him to go and…

1Opinion of the Court

Howem,, J.

Plaintiff instituted this suit in the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, to recover the sum of ®510, alleged to be due for the wages of her minor son, as cook on the steamboat Osceola, at the rate of thirty dollars per month, for two months from the 5th February, 1859, and fifty dollars per month for nine months thereafter. Upon the usual affidavit, the boat was provisionally seized.

The defendant, McMillan, as master and sole owner, excepted to the jurisdiction of the court, alleging his domicil to be in the parish of Caddo, in this State, which plea was, by consent, tried with…

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