Alter v. Pickett

This is an hypothecary action. On the twenty-sixth of January, 1866, the plaintiff obtained a judgment in the Third District Court of the parish of Orleans against R. C. Cummings & Co. for the sum of forty-six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars, with eight percent, per annum interest thereon. On the ninth day of February, 1866, Alter caused a writ of fieri faeias to issue under this judgment, directed to the Sheriff of the parish of Orleans, and he filed a petition propounding interrogatories to Paulina Pickett under the act of 1839. On the twelfth of March, 1866, the petition and…