Knight v. Callender

Supreme Court of Louisiana
Knight v. Callender, 10 La. 226 (La. 1836)

Knight v. Callender

Opinion of the Court

Martin, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff instituted suit against the defendants as partners in trade, for a debt of the partnership, and attached some funds and property in the hands of one Walter B. Wil-coxon, one of their debtors, who was made a garnishee.

The defendants pleaded to the jurisdiction of the court on the score of commorancy, they being residents of a different parish than that in which the suit is brought; and after-wards, on a suggestion that they had made a cessio bonorum, which had been accepted, and the claim of the plaintiff placed on the bilan; they prayed for a dismissal of the suit.

The exceptions were overruled, and the attachment against Callender sustained; and, as respects Deblois, the case was ordered to be sent to the concurso.

The defendants next pleaded the general issue and compensation ; and that . Deblois for himself and the firm, had r , made a surrender, which had been accepted, and a syndic __• , •» &PP0ÍHt6cL

The District Court rendered judgment against Callender ^01’ the whole amount of the sum demanded, and against the garnishee for the balance admitted by him to be due to the ° J , defendants’ firm, to be applied to the payment of the judgment against Callender. The defendants appealed.

The statement of facts show that the plaintiff’s claim was 1 admitted, and that the cessio bonorum was made by Deblois, for himself and for the firm, Callender and Deblois. It was shown, that the defendants were commercial partners in New-Oileans at the time of the surrender of Deblois, anq t]iat Callender had left the state at the time of issuing ° the attachment.

Judgment against a garnishee cannot be reviewed iri the Supreme Court, the appeal.

The plea to the jurisdiction, was, in our opinion, waived by the subsequent one. Deblois, having made a cession for himself and the firm, had no capacity to stand in judgment in this court as appellant from a judgment, which, if erroneous, must be reversed on the application of the syndic, The appeal, as to him, must therefore be dismissed.

Callender retaining his private property, the plaintiff was entitled to a judgment against him personally, notwithstanding the cessio bonorum of the firm.

The judgment against the garnishee cannot be reviewed . J ° ° # ° m this court, because he is not before us.

It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment of the District Court be affirmed, with costs.

Reference

Full Case Name
KNIGHT v. CALLENDER & DEBLOIS
Status
Published