Supreme Court of Louisiana April 15, 1849 (McGregor v. Ball)

The judgment of the court (King, J. absent,),, was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

This is an action brought by the plaintiffs, who were consignees of a quantity of lard, which was shipped to them in New Orleans from Terrehaute, in Indiana, on board the flat-boat Thomas White,for the recovery of a portion of it, which was found in tho possession of the defendant in this city, and seized under a writ