Case ID: la-ann_18/html/0234-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Labatjve, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Polhamius & Jackson v. The City of New Orleans.
    When an instrument in-writing, containing obligations which, the party wishes to enforce, has been lost or destroyed, by accident or force, evidence maybe given of its contents, provided the party show the loss, either by direct testimony, or by such circumstances, supported by the oath of the party, as render the loss probable; and in this case, the Judge may, if required, order reasonable security to be given to indemnify the party against the appearance of the instrument, in case circumstances render it necessary.
    APPEAL from the Second District Court of New Orleans,
    
      Thomas, J. Geo. S. Lacey, for plaintiffs. Thos. H. Hewes, for defendant and ■appellant.
   Labatjve, J.

This is an appeal from, a judgment rendered, against the •City of New Orleans, on several bonds executed by the City and held by the plaintiffs.

The evidence shows -that, while the plaintiffs were the owners of the bonds sued upon, they were lost or destroyed in their transmission from the Post Office of the city of New York, on a voyage of the American vessel called the Electric Spark, between New York city and the city of New Orleans.

The plaintiffs made due publication of the loss according to law, and after such publication of loss, demanded payment of said bonds from the City of New Orleans, and upon its declining to pay, this suit was instituted.

The evidence fully sustains the judgment rendered in this case.

The plaintiff complains of so much of the judgment that annexes as a condition precedent to the issuance of execution in plaintiffs’ favor, that they shall execute an indemnifying bond in favor of the City of New Orleans, holding the City harmless against a second payment of the •said bonds.

We think this objection of the appellee to the judgment not well founded in law; nor can we perceive, under C. C. Art. 2258, how the lower Court could have rendered any other judgment, and do complete .justice between the parties.

Judgment affirmed, with costs.