Case ID: la-ann_3/html/0435-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Eustis, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Swagar et al v. Pierce et al.
    An attachment will not lie in an action for damages ex delicto.
    
    APPEAL from the Fourth District Court of New Orleans, Straiobridgc, J.
    
      Elmore, W. W. King, and Mott, for the appellants.
    
      Randall, for the desndants.
   The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

This is a suit for damages caused by the collision of the steamer Childe Harold with the steamer Homer, the former owned by the defendants and the latter by the plaintiffs. It was commenced by attachment, and the attachment was dissolved, after a hearing by the district Judge, from whose decision this appeal was taken. In the case of Prewitt v. Carmichael, decided in October last, 2 An. Rep. p. 943, we held that, under the provisions of the Code of Practice, an attachment could not be maintained in an action for damages for a tort. That case was thoroughly argued, and the subject was examined with great care; on ajreview of it, we are satisfied that our decision was correct. Judgment affirmed.