Billington v. Poitevent & Favre Lumber Co.

Citations

• 52 La. Ann. 1397

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. Where an attachment is levied on the property of a corporation which is in an insolvent condition, and whose stockholders have been publicly -notiflec to meet for the purpose of considering the question of lta liquidation, ant such attachment is dissolved on bond, and, afterwards, by Judgment, and it does not appear that it was issued through malice, or that the property has been injured by reason thereof, or would have sold, in tne course, and for the purposes, of the liquidation of the company, to greater advantage if such attachment had not been levied, and no specific damages with respect to such property are proved, none will be allowed. ,</p> <p>2. Two. hundred dollar's, in the instant case, is held to bo a reasonable and sufficient amount to be allowed as attorneys fees for dissolving an attachment issued upon insufficient grounds, the amount claimed by the attaching creditor having been $2,224.70, and the matter having been appealed, to, and tried in, this court.</p>