Hill v. Bowman
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. Hill. & M^UNNEG-IiE vs. BOWMAN. APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE BUCHANAN PRESIDING. The defendant is appellant from a judgment discharging a rule, taken by him on the plaintiffs, to show cause why a writ of ca. sa., which they had caused to be issued against him, should not be set aside. . The original suit was brought by attachment of a steamboat, of which the defendant was part owner.
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Eastern Dist. Hill. & M^UNNEG-IiE vs. BOWMAN. APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE BUCHANAN PRESIDING. The defendant is appellant from a judgment discharging a rule, taken by him on the plaintiffs, to show cause why a writ of ca. sa., which they had caused to be issued against him, should not be set aside. . The original suit was brought by attachment of a steamboat, of which the defendant was part owner. He never appeared, and was represented by an attorney, appointed by the court.. The plaintiffs had judgment, allowing their whole claim, but only part of it as a…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The defendant is appellant from a judgment, rejecting his claim to a discharge from imprisonment under a ca. sa., issued *446in execution of a judgment of the District Court for the first judicial district, affirmed on appeal by a judgment of this court. See 1 Louisiana Reports, 543.
The judgment alone of this court must have effect, and is the law, independently of any expression used ar-guendo. A judgment allowing part of the demand as an ordinary debt is in personam, although the suit •was by attachment for a privileged debt.
His counsel has contended, that the writ of ca. sa. ought to be…
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