Wooldridge v. F. Rickert & Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
^PPEAL from the Eourth District Court, parish of Orleans. Houston, First — An adjudication in bankruptcy dissolves attacbments of the debtor’s property made witbin four months, and vests the property in the assignee. U. S. Bev. Stat. Sec. 5044; Bump, pp. 473, 495, 497,130, 131, 202, 502. Second — A copy duly certified of the assignment is conclusive evidence of the assignee’s right to sue. U. S. Bev.
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^PPEAL from the Eourth District Court, parish of Orleans. Houston, First — An adjudication in bankruptcy dissolves attacbments of the debtor’s property made witbin four months, and vests the property in the assignee. U. S. Bev. Stat. Sec. 5044; Bump, pp. 473, 495, 497,130, 131, 202, 502. Second — A copy duly certified of the assignment is conclusive evidence of the assignee’s right to sue. U. S. Bev. Stat. 5049 ; Bump, pp. 537, 538. Third — The assignee may sue in the State Courts. Bump, pp. 324, 364, 715 ; 93 U. S. 130. Fourth — Bankruptcy, to prevail as a defense, must be pleaded. Bump, pp.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Levy, J.
Plaintiff, appellee herein, brought suit in the Eourth District Court, parish of Orleans, to recover from defendants, appellants, the sum of eleven hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty cents, being an amount which had been received by defendants from the Teutonia Insurance Company, under process of garnishment in an attachment suit of Rickert & Co. vs. Howard & Patterson, absent and non-residents defendants therein. Howard & Patterson, the defendants *235in the attachment suit, were adjudged bankrupts by the U. S. District Court of Texas, and…
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