Case Name: Charles Fonda, Dative Testamentary Executor, v. G. L. Broom and D. N. Hennen
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1857-11
Citations: 12 La. Ann. 768
Docket Number: 
Parties: Charles Fonda, Dative Testamentary Executor, v. G. L. Broom and D. N. Hennen.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 768–768

Head Matter:
Charles Fonda, Dative Testamentary Executor, v. G. L. Broom and D. N. Hennen.
In a suit for damages where one of the defendants is charged with aiding and abetting the other in the commission of a wrong or injury, he has a right to demand a severance, and trial by jury.
from the Sixth District Court of New Orleans. Tried by a Jury before Cotton, J.
Dmant & Honor, for plaintiff and appellant.
Benjamin, Bradford. & Finney, for defendant Hennen, appellee.

Opinion:
Spokford, J.
So far as the defendant Hennen is personally concerned, this must be regarded as an action in damages against him for wilfully aiding Geo. L. Broom, as executor of the will of Samuel Broom, to waste the estate and defraud the heirs and creditors.
Under such allegations as those made in the petition, and the separate answer of Hennen, there was no error in permitting a severance or a trial by jury as to Hennen, who is the only appellee. The discretion of the District Judge in this matter was not restrained by any arbitrary rule in the Code of Practice.
An examination of the record has not enabled us to say, that the jury and the court below erred in concluding that the charges of fraud and mal-practice against the appellee were insufficiently proven.
Judgment affirmed.