Le Page v. Porée

Supreme Court of Louisiana
Le Page v. Porée, 3 Rob. 439 (La. 1843)
Martin

Le Page v. Porée

Opinion of the Court

Martin, J.

The plaintiff, and his surety in an injunction bond, are appellants from a judgment dissolving the injunction on the ground of the insufficiency of the facts on which it was granted.’ The petition stated that the plaintiff was the owner of a number of bank shares, which he had transferred to Le Page, Jr., in. order thereby to enable him to obtain money ; and that the defendant Porée, having a judgment against a firm of which Le Page, Jr. was a member, caused the other defendant, the City Marshal, to levy a writ of fi. fa., issued under the judgment, on said bank shares ; whereupon, an injunction was obtained to prevent their sale.

It is clear that the injunction was improperly granted. The plaintiff, by transferring his shares to Le Page, Jr., to enable him to raise money thereon, by loan, made him the apparent owner of them, and thereby deceived his creditors.

There was a motion for' a new trial on the grounds :

■ 1st. That the judgment ought to have been one of nonsuit only.

2d. That there was no prayer for judgment against the surety.

3d. That notice of trial ought to have been given to the surety, the attorney of the plaintiff being dead.

The court did not err. If an injunction be granted on grounds which do not warrant it, the party against whom it was obtained has a right to demand its dissolution. Gorman, the surety who appeals, did not sign the original bond; but the record shows that *440his name was substituted for that of Chalaron, the surety on the original bond, and that the former, Gorman, subscribed a new bond.

Judgment affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Louis Le Page v. F. C. Porée and another
Status
Published