Laloire v. Wiltz
Laloire v. Wiltz
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the coui t was delivered by
The plaintiff., a judgment creditor of the defendants,
1. The intervenors are manifestly without the pale of relief; although their interventions were dismissed by the lower court, they did not appeal, and, therefore, can not complain. The only appellant before us is Mrs. Laloire, who seeks to reverse the judgment below, which was in favor of Bush & Levert, who are appellees, and it is a settled rule of practice that the prayer of one appellee to amend a judgment as to the others can not be entertained. Deblanc vs. Levasseur, 26 A. 542. Williams vs. Le Blanc, 14 A., 758. Tegart vs. McCaleb, 10 A. 290.
2. Mrs. Laloire complains on two grounds. First: That the lower court treated the parties as in concurso simply determining their rights to the fund; consequently not passing on the right of Bush & Levert to the injunction, or her prayer for damages consequent on the claimed illegal issuance thereof. Second: Because the claim of Bush & Levert was improperly allowed. We think neither complaint founded.
First: After the injunction issued, and after Mrs. Laloire had
“It is hereby agreed that the entire lot of sugar and molasses seized, by virtue of an alias writ of fi. fa. issued in the above entitled case, by the sheriff of the parish of St. diaries shall be shipped to Messrs. Bush & Levert, of New Orleans, to be by them sold in the usual way, the wages for talcing off and making the said sugar and molasses to be paid out of the proceeds of sale thereof, and the balance, or an amount sufficient to pay the claim of plaintiff, to be held by said Bush & Levert, subject to the final decision of the controversy in the above entitled case, it being the true intent and meaning of all parties that the rights of every one shall be unaffected by this agreement.”
The very issue presented by the injunction was the right of Bush & Levert to reduce the crop to money, without regard to the seizure, their pretension being that the lien of the factor entitled them to sell, leaving creditors the faculty of exercising their rights on the proceeds. Whether such pretension was correct, is a matter which we are not called upon to decide, as the parties have consented to the sale of the crop by Bush & Levert, and to the retention by them of the proceeds. True, the agreement reserved the rights of the parties, but the reservation can not be considered as denying the very right which it expressly gave. We consider the consent as permitting Bush & Levert to sell, their power to retain as their own the balance held under the consent, being made to. depend on the establishing by Mrs. Laloire of a better right than theirs. This view is a response to the complaint, that the in j unction suit contained no prayer for personal judgment. The crop not seized by Mrs. Laloire on the twentieth of December, was seized on the twenty-fourth of the same month, subject, however, to a previous seizure made by the Citizens’ Bank as mortgaged creditors, under which the plantation was sold; under such circumstances, we do not consider the present case a suitable one for damages, even if the claim therefor was not waived by the agreement.
Second: We thiDk Bush & Levert have satisfactorily shown the sum of one thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty cents ($1364 50) due for advances after the application of the entire proceeds of the crop. Wiltz testifies as to the correctness of the account, and says the amount was really advanced in money or supplies for carrying on the planting operations of the year. The account is generally attacked on the ground, that the proof does not adequately establish the necessary nature of the supplies. It is said that the showing of such necessity is an essential element of proof to create the privilege. Such was undoubtedly the rule under C. 0. 3217, which in terms gave the privilege, “for money actually advanced and used for
1. Objection is made to §2368 08 paid by Bush & Levert to the laborers, because at the time of the payment Bush & Levert took a subrogation. It is said, they did not advance the money, but bought up the claims ; that they only recorded their subrogation after plaintiff’s seizure, hence the claim of the laborers, which had not been otherwise recorded, is primed by plaintiff. The contract of Bush & Levert was recorded long prior to the seizure, and the payment by subrogation rendered the money used for that purpose none the less an advance. Besides, the consent expressly authorized the payment of the laborers.
2. Objection to §340 26, paid two engineers. This is we think answered by the ruling expressed on the previous one.
3. Item of §2514 39, paid Lambert for coal. Objected to because not a necessary supply, and because not subrogated to Lambert’s right. Coal is a necessary supply for making a sugar crop ; that such is the case is made evident by the fact that the coal left after taking off the crop is valued at $12, and claimed herein by plaintiff.
4. 5, and 6. These objections are all answered by the opinion we have expressed as to the effect of the act of 1874. In addition to these items of the account, it is said that the sums paid for laborers, brick masons, and others, for repairing the sugar-mill, and money advanced Wiltz for that purpose, give no privilege, because the law has given a privilege to the mechanic on the thing repaired, and there can not be two privileges for the one claim. That, besides,, no privilege results to ■the factor for money advanced for these purposes, because not requisite
We think the judgment below, so far as before us, did justice between the parties. It is affirmed.
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