Legal Opinion

Lee & Hardy v. Palmer

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 15, 1841PublishedCited by 4 opinions

APPEAL FROM! THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an attachment suit instituted the 25th of February, 1840, against the defendant, John E. Palmer, in which the plaintiffs claim a judgment on his note for $6833 43, with 8 per cent, per annum interest thereon, payable the 25th of March, 1839, at the branch of the Union Bank of Mississippi, at Lexington.

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APPEAL FROM! THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an attachment suit instituted the 25th of February, 1840, against the defendant, John E. Palmer, in which the plaintiffs claim a judgment on his note for $6833 43, with 8 per cent, per annum interest thereon, payable the 25th of March, 1839, at the branch of the Union Bank of Mississippi, at Lexington. They pray for attachments against property in the hands of Ward, Moffitt & Co., in New Orleans, and S. S. Cobb & Co., who are also cited as garnishees. Cobb & Co., answered they had no property or money of the defendant, Palmer, in…

1Opinion of the CourtGarland, J.

This suit was commenced by attachment; the plaintiffs alleging the defendant is indebted, to them in the süm of $6,838 43, with interest at eight per cent, from the maturity of the note., S. S. Cobb & Co., and Ward, Moffitt & Co. were cited as garnishees. The sheriff in his.return on the attachment, says, he has seized sufficient property in their hands belonging to the defendant, to satisfy the debt, but does not say what it is. In their answers to the interrogatories propounded by the plaintiffs, Ward, Moffitt & Co. say they have no knowledge of the defendant, and they have no property of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Robinson v. TaylorSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1834

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Buchler v. FourrouxSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1939
  2. Halpin v. BarringerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1874
  3. Bean v. Mississippi Union BankSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1843
  4. Anderson v. ValentineSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1860

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