Mayor v. Blache
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This case is composed of two suits instituted by the corporation of New-Orleans against Charles L. Blache, late treasurer, and his sureties, the first on a promissory note for three thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-six cents, held by the corporation and signed by C. L. Blache, and endorsed by Joseph Le Carpentier and Martin Blache, secon¿ against C. L. Blache and his sureties on their bonds, for…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This case is composed of two suits instituted by the corporation of New-Orleans against Charles L. Blache, late treasurer, and his sureties, the first on a promissory note for three thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-six cents, held by the corporation and signed by C. L. Blache, and endorsed by Joseph Le Carpentier and Martin Blache, secon¿ against C. L. Blache and his sureties on their bonds, for the sum of fourty-four thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-eight cents, the amount of the alleged…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
These two cases, relating to alleged defalcations in the accounts of one of the defendants, as treasurer of the city of New-Orleans for a series of years, were consolidated and tried together in the District Court. Judgment was rendered in favor of the sureties and endorsers, and on the appeal both have been' argued together. We shall consider them separately, beginning with that which relates to the notes given for the supposed deficit of 1829 occasioned by the infidelity of Jean Guerin.
In this first case the corporation sues to recover the amount of a note drawn by C.L. Blache, then…
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