Bonilla v. Merle
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APTEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. This is an action instituted by the plaintiff, as syndic of the creditors of one Carlos Vidal, in Havana, against the commercial firm of John A. Merle & Co., of New-Orleans, claiming a balance from the latter of one thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-seven cents, resulting from commercial dealings and transactions between them.
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APTEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. This is an action instituted by the plaintiff, as syndic of the creditors of one Carlos Vidal, in Havana, against the commercial firm of John A. Merle & Co., of New-Orleans, claiming a balance from the latter of one thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-seven cents, resulting from commercial dealings and transactions between them. The defendants pleaded the general issue, and denied that they were indebted toj or had any funds of Vidal in their hands whatever. The evidence showed that Vidal had consigned to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mathews,
delivered the opinion of the court.
In this case the syndic of the creditors of Vidal, an insolvent, residing in the city of Havana, in the island of Cuba, sues to recover from the defendants one thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents, which he alleges they owe to the estate of the insolvent, as having been his debtors to that amount previous to his failure, &c.
They resist payment to, or a recovery by, the present plaintiff, on account of having assumed to pay this sum to one Magnin, at, the request, and in pursuance'of the order of1 Vidal, the…
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