Dupre v. Splane
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF ST. MARY, THE JUDGE OF THE SIXTH PRESIDING. This is an action to render the defendant liable as agent, or attorney at law, for the balance on a promissory note placed in his hands for collection. The plaintiff alleges that in October, 1830, he put in the defendant’s hands, as his attorney at law, for collection,.a note 00 one L. Johnson, for six hundred and forty dollars, bearing interest.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF ST. MARY, THE JUDGE OF THE SIXTH PRESIDING. This is an action to render the defendant liable as agent, or attorney at law, for the balance on a promissory note placed in his hands for collection. The plaintiff alleges that in October, 1830, he put in the defendant’s hands, as his attorney at law, for collection,.a note 00 one L. Johnson, for six hundred and forty dollars, bearing interest. That he did collect said note in 1831, from ° James Plaisted, Esq., the agent of Johnson, and is consequently bound for the whole amount of…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
Plaintiff seeks to recover the balance of a note, placed for collection in the hands of defendant, as his attorney at law; the estate of the drawer of (his note being at that time unable to pay its whole amount, and defendant entertaining some doubts as to its ultimate solvency, he made an arrangement with the agent of the heirs, in September, 1831; he received three hundred dollars in part payment, and took for the balance the note of one Levi Foster, who at that time was possessed of a large amount of property and was generally considered as good ; some time after, however, he died and his…
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