Breedlove v. Fletcher
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the court and parish and city of New Orleans. This case originated by attachment sued out, under the acts of assembly of 1805, § 11. and of the second session of the same year, pa. 46, § 8. and of 1811, i^Martin’s Digest, 512, n. 1, 516, n. 2, 518, n. ⅜, 5, 8£ 6, by which the courts are autho-rised to issue attachments, directed to the si e ff of the county where the defendant hath lands, &"c. when he is a non-resident, &c.
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Appeal from the court and parish and city of New Orleans. This case originated by attachment sued out, under the acts of assembly of 1805, § 11. and of the second session of the same year, pa. 46, § 8. and of 1811, i^Martin’s Digest, 512, n. 1, 516, n. 2, 518, n. ⅜, 5, 8£ 6, by which the courts are autho-rised to issue attachments, directed to the si e ff of the county where the defendant hath lands, &"c. when he is a non-resident, &c. Tlie objec t of the suit was, to recover from the defendant as endorser of a bill of exchange, the sum of 88300, with the damages, interest, ánd costs. The…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
delivered the opinion of the court. ¿ . The defendant’s counsel urges that the princi pal question in this case lias been settled by tlus court, in the cases of Dunwoody vs. Johnson, and Smith vs. Flower & al. while the plaintiffs’contends, that we have pronounced opinions impliedly #in diametrical opposition with the decision in these cases^-which, he Relieves, to have been decided hastily, and ,with little consideration.
The case of Dunwoody vs. Johnson received/ from this court all the attention which we are accustomed to bestow on those in which we have to, pronounce without the aid of…
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