Nieto v. Hay
Nieto v. Hay
Opinion of the Court
Plaintiff alleges that on the 18th day of April, 1918, he and defendant entered into an oral agreement of partnership, by which they were to buy out a certain going country store business, and to carry on the same for three years, the defendant to furnish $5,000, and he his services, and they to divide the profits equally; that he attended to the buying of the business, and to leasing the building in which it was then being carried on, and was in charge as man
The court ordered the writ to issue, and under it the sheriff took possession of the stock of goods in the store, and of the moneys of defendant on deposit in the local bank and in a New Orleans bank.
Defendant moved the dissolution of the writ, and in the alternative that he be allowed to bond. The court refused both'.
Defendant has applied to this court for a mandamus to compel the trial judge to allow him to bond.
We have in the matter of the dissolution of the writ strong views, but this is not the time to express them. Clearly defendant should be allowed to bond. Why not? What more can plaintiff want than a good bond to answer for any judgment he may obtain. He cites the cases of Eltrington v. Clarke, 49 La. Ann. 340, 21 South. 547, and Boimare v. St. Geme, 113 La. 830, 37 South. 770. These were' suits for settlement of partnership, and the property admittedly belonged to the partnership. Such is not the case here.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that a - writ of mandamus issue to lion. Prentiss B. Carter, Judge of the Twenty-Sixth' judicial district court in and for the parish of St. Tammany, directing and commanding him to comply with the prayer of the defendant in the suit of David Nieto v. William R. Hay, for an order to dissolve on bond the writ of sequestration issued in said suit.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- NIETO v. HAY. In re HAY
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- Published
- Syllabus
- (Syllabus by Editorial Staff.) Sequestration On defendant’s motion for dissolution of a writ of sequestration, and in the alternative that he be allowed to bond, the trial court must allow defendant to bond, since plaintiff can desire no more than such security.