Case ID: la_136/html/0147-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LAND, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(66 South. 760)
    No. 20132.
    JONES v. MONROE.
    (Nov. 30, 1914.)
    
      (Syllabus by the Court.)
    
    Sequestration @=>17 — Dissolution — Damages.
    Whore writs of sequestration are dissolved as a result of a trial of a cause on its merits, attorney fees will • not be allowed as damages where it is impossible to determine what portion of the services of counsel related to the release of the property.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Sequestration, Cent. Dig. §§ 35-37; Dec. Dig. @=^17.]
    Appeal from Seventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Richland; John R. McIntosh, Judge.
    Action by J. W. Jones against W. E. Monroe. Judgment for intervener and plaintiff appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Smith & McGregor, of Rayville, for appellant. Medlenka & Bruner, of Crowley, for appellee.
   LAND, J.

This suit raises the same issue of title to the same traction engine considered and decided by us in the ease of W. E. Monroe v. J. W. Jones et al. (No. 20131) 66 South. 759, and for the reasons assigned in our opinion in that case, the judgment below in favor of the defendant must be affirmed on the question of title.

Plaintiff caused said engine to be seized under writs of sequestration, which were dissolved as a result of trial on the merits.

Defendant in answer to the appeal has prayed that the judgment below be amended by awarding him $150 damages for attorney fees.

The motion to dissolve having been referred to and tried with the merits, it is impossible to determine what portion of the .services of counsel related to the release of the property.

There was judgment below in favor of the intervener recognizing and enforcing its alleged vendor’s privilege on the traction engine.

Plaintiff is the only appellant, and no longer has any interest in contesting the claim of intervener.

Judgment affirmed. 
      
      Ante, p. 143.