Case Name: B. M. Nuzum v. Elijah Gore
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1872-04
Citations: 24 La. Ann. 208
Docket Number: No. 3739
Parties: B. M. Nuzum v. Elijah Gore.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 208–209

Head Matter:
No. 3739.
B. M. Nuzum v. Elijah Gore.
A reconventional demand for damages for tho wrongful suing out of a sequestration, can not Ro sot up l)y the defendant where the parties reside in the same parish. Nor does ihe law authorise the imposition of such damages in any caso on the setting aside of a sequestration.
A PPEAL from the Seventh Judicial District Court, parish of West Feliciana. Miller, J.
Collins & Leake, for plaintiff and appellant^ Scmuel J. Powell, for defendant and appellee.

Opinion:
Howe, J.
A sequestration was issued in this case to enforce a vendor's privilege, claimed hy the plaintiff on sundry cypress logs. The defendant filed an exception that the suit was premature, the amount agreed to be paid not being due.
A mass of testimony wás taken on this question, and it seems to have been very carefully considered by the district judge. He saw and beard tbe witnesses, and after an elaborate discussion of tbe facts be arrived at tbe conclusion that under tbe agreement of the parties tbe debt claimed by plaintiff was not yet due, and lie therefore sustained the exception and dismissed the suit, with one hundred dollars damages.
We do not feel authorized to disturb this finding of the judge upon the question of prematurity, but we think there was error in giving .judgment for damages. The parties reside in the same parish, and such a claim can not be set up in reconvention. Nor is there any statute authorizing such an imposition of damages, as in the dissolution of •an injunction. Knox v. Thompson, 12 An. 116; Morgan v. Driggs, 17 La. 176.
Let 'the judgment be amended by striking; therefrom the amount .awarded ás damages, and as thus amended let it be affirmed.