Case Name: ROBINSON vs. DRURY
Court: Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1811
Citations: 1 Mart. (o.s.) 206
Docket Number: 
Parties: ROBINSON vs. DRURY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 1
Pages: 206–206

Head Matter:
ROBINSON vs. DRURY.
Spring 1811.
First District.
Defendant by answering waves irregularity attachment.
Attachment levied on a quantity of oil of palma christi. The defendant put in an answer.
When the jurors were called to the book, a claim to the oil was put in by a third person.
Depeyster for the defendant,
prayed that the jury might not be sworn, because it was going to be proven that the property attached did not belong to the defendant ; so that, as he was not properly in, the court could not have jurisdiction of the case.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Martin, J. alone.
The defendant, by filing his answer, and putting the cause at issue, has admitted that he was properly brought in, and given jurisdiction to the court.
Jury sworn.