No. 13,141 | La. | Dec 15, 1899
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The plaintiff alleges that he is the owner -of sixty (00) shares of the preferred capital stock of the New Consumers Ice Company, Limited, of one hundred dollars each, and he seeks to recover of the defendants, Samuel J. Hart and Helen II. Hart, as the heirs of Judah Hart, the sum of twenty-one hundred dollars ($2100), with legal interest from judicial demand, as one-half of a dividend of ten per cent, per annum for a period of ten years on the par value of said stock, payable semi-annually on the 1st of May and November of each year.
This suit is based on an obligation of Judah Hart and R. T. McDonald, contained in an act of sale, which is fully described in the opinion of this court in the case of Mrs. Harriet A. Ilorner vs. R. T. McDonald el als., No. 13,119, this day decided.
The issues raised in this case are identical with those of the aforesaid case, this day decided, and for the reasons therein assigned, we are of the opinion that judgment should have been rendered in favor of the plaintiff for one-half of each of the semi-annual dividends which matured and became due on the 1st of May and November of 1897, and the 1st of May, 1898, with five per cent, per annum interest from judicial demand; this suit having been filed on July 18th, 1898—
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the plaintiff, Frank Rodér, do have and recover of the defendants, Samuel J. Iiart and Helen IT. TIart, one-half of the amount of the semi-annual dividends claimed for the year 1897, and the first instalment of 1898, of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) each, with five per cent, per annum interest from judicial demand, and that, in all other respects, the judgment appealed from should be reversed; the demands in respect to other dividends enumerated are dismissed as of non-suit.
And, that the costs of. appeal be taxed against the plaintiff and appellee.