Tex-O-Kan Flour Mills Co. v. Nord

Plaintiff, Tex-O-Kan Flour Mills Company, a Delaware corporation, brought this suit against the defendant, Guy N.F. Nord, a resident of Belize, British Honduras, to recover the sum of $1217.58 representing the purchase price, including freight charges, etc., of 300 jutes of flour which it avers was sold and delivered to the defendant in accordance with his order. Upon alleging in its petition that defendant was a nonresident and that the Whitney National Bank of New Orleans was indebted to him, plaintiff secured the issuance of a writ of attachment of funds belonging to the defendant which…