Conservative Homestead Ass'n v. Parker

HIGGINS, Justice.

The plaintiff, as owner and lessor, provisionally seized the contents of the premises 521-23 Royal street, in the city of New Orleans, for the rent due by Sam S. Parker, its tenant, amounting to about $6,000.

The Ducros Tile & Terrazzo Company, Inc., Southern Tile Company, Inc., Kraftile Company, Inc., Colonna & Co., Quad Stove Company, and Willette Corporation intervened, claiming that the Ducros and Southern Tile Companies occupied the premises under alleged verbal subleases from Parker and that, as these companies had paid all of the rent due by the sub-lessees to Parker,…