Matter of the New Orleans Improvement & Banking Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
from the Third District Court of New Orleans, Strawbridge, L, presiding. The judges being equally divided in opinión on some of the points in this case, the judgment of the lower court was, on these points, affirmed, under article 68 of the constitution.
1Opinion of the CourtRost, J.
Oppositions were made by several of the creditors of the Improvement and Banking Company to the final tableau of distribution filed by the commissioners appointed to liquidate that institution; and the various appeals presented by this record, have been taken from the judgments rendered on those oppositions.
The most important error to which our attention is directed is assigned by J. Corning Co., who are note holders, and claim to be paid out of the proceeds of the real estate, under a mortgage subscribed in their favor by the bank, in 1842. They allege that the District Court erred in giving…
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