83 So. 385 | La. | 1919
Plaintiff, as receiver of the Arkansas Mill Company, sued for and obtained a writ of injunction, preventing the defendant from removing from the premises of the corporation certain lumber which defendant had bought from the corporation. Plain.tiff did not allege that the lumber belonged to the corporation, or that it did not belong to the defendant. It was alleged that , the lumber was, in part, marked as the property of defendant, and that he was in the act of removing it from the yards of the corporation. The relief prayed for was that a writ of injunction should issue, prohibiting the defendant from removing any of the lumber from the yards of the mill company, or interfering with the possession of the plaintiff as receiver. . The court ordered the injunction to issue, without requiring that plaintiff furnish a bond; but, on defendant’s motion to dissolve the writ for want of a bond, the court ordered plaintiff to furnish a bond in the sum of $5,000, which was done. Thereafter defendant had the injunction dissolved on a bond for $5,000.
In answer to the suit, defendant claimed ownership of the lumber, and prayed for dismissal of the suit, and for damages caused by the injunction.
On trial of the case, it was proven that the lumber had been sold to the defendant by the corporation, had been graded, measured, and delivered, and marked as the property of defendant, before the receiver was appointed, and that the lumber had not been included in the inventory of the property intrusted to the receiver, and was never in his possession or under his control.
Judgment was rendered in favor of defendant, dismissing the suit, and condemning the receiver to pay defendant $843.07 damages, for the illegal injunction, viz. an item of $104.02, and otiher items amounting to $239.-05, of expenses incurred in obtaining a dissolution of the injunction on bond, and $500 for attorney’s fees incurred for the dissolution of the writ. The plaintiff, having appealed, resigned from the receivership, and bis successor, Hosea E. Currie, having been duly appointed and qualified, became a party appellant, and has been authorized to prosecute the appeal.
It is not disputed that the lumber belong
Opinion.
The judgment appealed from is affirmed.