Bonnabel v. Rabeneau
Bonnabel v. Rabeneau
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff is appellant, from the dissolution of a writ of sequestration, which he had obtained to prevent the defendant from receiving an indemnity from a fire insurance company, in whose office the latter had effected an insurance on the contents of an apothecary and druggist’s store, which were consumed by fire, on an affidavit that he was the vendor to the defendant of a considerable part of the merchandize so destroyed, had ihe vendor’s privilege thereon, and was fearful that the defendant would part with and dispose of the indemnity to which he is entitled, to his, -plaimiff’s, injury and prejudice. The defendant’s counsel has urged that the writ of sequestration was properly set aside, as the privilege of the vendor does not attach on the insurance money recovered for the loss of the object sold. Thayer v. Goodale, 4 La. 222. The plaintiff’s counsel has relied an several authorities, which establish that in France, a distinction is made between marine and terrestrial insurances, the latter not being considered as commercial transactions, but as acts of administration, under which the insurance enures to the benefit of whoever has a lien or privilege on the property insured. Quesnault Asses. Terrestres, p. 162. Journal du Palais, vol. 22, p. 152. Ib. An. 1837, p. 235. Boudousquié, De l’Ass, contre l’Incendie. p. 116. He has also cited Hammond on Insurance, p. 23. Deforest v. Fulton Ins. Co., 1 Hall, 84; and has contended that art. 3152 of the Civil Code, which provides that privileges only exist in cases expressly provided by law, ought not to prevent us from recognizing the distinction on which he depends, although the privilege he claims be not mentioned in the Code. Admitting
Judgment affirmed.
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- Henry Bonnabel v. Frederic Rabeneau
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