The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-20
THE CARR-LAUN CASE AGAIN.
seligman, Holman e. CO. Ask for Judg
ment Against the Firm for $40, $40.

seligman, HeIIman e. Co. Ask for Judg-
ment Against the Firm for $50, SIG.
Yesterday, in the Fifth District Court, suit was
fled against Carr & Laun by Messrs. seligman,
Helman Go. for s36, $40, as due on certain bills
of exchange and as damages resulting from their
illegal practices.
Petitioners say that Mortimer Carr and Louis
r, Laun members of the late commercial firm of
Carr & Laun. are indebted to petitioners in the
sum of $3.50, $40 ~, with damages thereon at the
ra OF ten dollars for each one hundred dollars
of said sum OF $3.50, $40 AZ, and five per cent per
annum interest upon said principal and damages
from judicial demand for this, to wit
That on or about the 7th or 9Th days Of Febru-
ary last, 1877, the said firm OF Carr Laun being
largely indebted to petitioners for advances to
them made, and in part satisfaction OF said in
certain bills Of exchange, drawn in duplicate and
in the ordinary form customary in commercial
circles in the city Of New Orleans, amounting
in the aggregate to the cum OF s149, los 10,
the first of said bills being for the sum Of
s49, los 10, and is dated at New Orleans February
T. 1877, drawn by Carr Laun to the order OF
themselves and Endorsed, due sixty days after
sight upon the firm of Belig Lamothe, of
Bremen, in the empire of Germany, against q
pretended consignment of $50 bales OF cotton,
per bark Flora. from the port of Mobile, Ala
bama with the Niedersacheisehen Bank; that to
| said bill was attached forged and certified bill
of ladDg pretending to show that $50 bales OF cot
ton were shipped by said Carr & Laun in good Or
| der and on board the Norwegian bark Flora; that
the other five billy, in sets, are each for the sum
Of 20, 600 reichmarks, dated at New Orleans Feb
| ruary 8, 1877, and drawn by defendants, and made
PAYABLE ut the same place and bank.
Petitioners aver that the said firm Of Carr &
Laun are insolvcnt, but have property rights
and credits within the jurisdiction of this court,
| and that Mortimer Carr is about to assign or
| dispose of his property rights and credits, OF
| some part thereof with intent to defraud his
creditors ana that he has converted, or is about
| to convert his property into money.
Further averriag petitioners say that they sus.
pect that Max A. Dauphip, as president OF the
Louisiana State Lottery Company. and VIM. r..
Richardson, as cashier thereof, or either or both
OF them individually, have in their possession
property belonging to said Mortimer Carr.
Wherefore they pray that the said Mortimer
Carr and Louis r. Laun be cited to appear and
| answer this petition, and after due proceedings
and the legal delays they be condemned in solidc
to pay to petitioners said firm, the sum OF
| $50 $40 AZ and 1868 o. as damages and five PEI
cent per annum thereon principal and damsg es)
| from judicial demand, and all costs of suit, and
| that in the meantime writ of attachment issue
| from this court commanding the sheriff OF this
parish to seize and take into his possession all the
property, rights and credits belonging to said
Mortimer Carr within the jurisdiction of this
| court and that said attachment be maintained
They further pray that the said III. A. Dauphin,
| as President Of the Louisiana State Lottery Com.
pany. and VIM. A. Richardson, as cashier there.
OF. be made parties to this suit as garnishees
| and that they be cited, according to law, to de-
clare On oath what property belonging to said de-
| PENDANT Carr, or either of them, either individu-
| ally or as officers OF said company.