Watson v. Kennedy

Citations

• 8 La. Ann. 280

Syllabus

<p>Suit for damages for wrongful attachment. Defendant pleaded that plaintiff had illegally neglected to bond the property attached. Held: —The right to set aside an attachment by delivering to the Sheriff an obligation to satisfy the judgment that may be rendered against him, is a privilege which the law accords to the defendant—and not a duty enjoined, and the attaching creditor cannot complain if the defendant fails to exercise it.</p> <p>In cases of this character, based on the tortious acts of defendant, the jury are the legitimate judges of the quaAitwm of damages, and the law leaves them much discretion.</p>