Case Name: Liquidator of the Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad Company v. R. Whitaker
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1870-04
Citations: 22 La. Ann. 209
Docket Number: No. 2683
Parties: Liquidator of the Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad Company v. R. Whitaker.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 22
Pages: 209–209

Head Matter:
No. 2683.
Liquidator of the Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad Company v. R. Whitaker.
A decree of the Court ordering the liquidator of an insolvent corporation to collect the assets as spt cdily as possible is not prescribed by ten years.
Per curiam: The judgment directs the liquidator to discharge a duiy attachod to his office. It is no. a moneyed judgment.
APPEAL from District Court, parish of East Feliciana. Posey, J.
8. P. Punter, for plaintiff and appellant. Gross & Pardee and Pace, Poster & P. T. Merrick, for defendant and appellee.

Opinion:
Ludeling, C. J.
The plaintiff, under a decree ordering him to collect the assets of the insolvent corporation as speedily as possible, is seeking to enforce a mortgage against the defendant for stock subscribed. The defendant pleads the prescription of ten years against the judgment ordering the liquidator to collect, etc.
We are of opinion that the judgment in the case of the Gas Light Company v. Haynes is not prescribed. The judgment directs the liquidator to discharge a duty attached to his office. It is not a money-judgment. See 21 An. 250; ib. 44, and Liquidator of Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad Company v. Samuel Lee, recently decided.
It is, therefore, ordered that the judgment of the district court be annulled, that the plea of prescription be overruled, and that the case be remanded to the district court to be proceeded with according to law. It is further ordered that the appellee pay the costs of appeal.