Ohio Insurance v. Edmondson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dis. APPEAL PROM THE PARISH COURT OP THE PARISH AND CITT OP NEW-ORL EANS. This action was brought in 1830, for the recovery of the sum of six thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars, due on an instrument alleged to be a bottomry bond, upon the steamboat Walter Scott, then in the port of New-Orleans.
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Eastern Dis. APPEAL PROM THE PARISH COURT OP THE PARISH AND CITT OP NEW-ORL EANS. This action was brought in 1830, for the recovery of the sum of six thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars, due on an instrument alleged to be a bottomry bond, upon the steamboat Walter Scott, then in the port of New-Orleans. The bond was made in 1829, at Cincinnati, and signed by James Tallant, W. D. Jones, Joseph Pierce and Thomas Carneal; the first as principal, and the others as his sureties. Its first clause is as follows: KKnow all men by these presents, that I, James Tallant, of the city of Cincinnati,…
1Opinion of the CourtPorter, J.
The parties really litigant before this court are the plaintiffs,'and the defendant, Edmondson. The former claim a lien on an instrument of writing executed by Tallant, the original owner of the boat, in the State of Ohio. The latter sets up title to her under a sale made in the state of Kentucky, in virtue of a decree of one of the courts of chancery of that state.
It is unnecessary to set out the pleadings, for after any detailed statement of them, they would only exhibit what has been already stated, as the substantial issue between the parties.
Before, however, entering into the merits, one…
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