Watkins Banking Co. v. Louisiana Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A BPBAL from the Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish of Cal'-‘L casieu. Schwing, J., ad hoc. Plaintiffs sued the defendant for two thousand dollars.
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A BPBAL from the Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish of Cal'-‘L casieu. Schwing, J., ad hoc. Plaintiffs sued the defendant for two thousand dollars. They accompanied their demand for a personal judgment by an application for a writ of sequestration, based upon the claim that the amount due them was supported by privilege on the property of the defendants, and for a writ of attachment, upon the ground that defendants were about leaving the State permanently, without there being a possibility, in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, of ■obtaining or executing judgment against them…
1Opinion of the Court
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, 0. J.
The reasons assigned for dismissal of the appeal are thus stated: “Appellant asked for and obtained an order of appeal June 25, 1894, returnable at the city of New Orleans on the second Monday of January, 1895, whilst the appeal was legally returnable at Opelousas on the first Monday of July, 1894, under Act No. 69 of 1884, which was then in full force. Two regular terms 'of the District Court for Oalcasieu — one in September, 1894, and one in November, 1894 — were held since said improper order and return day…
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