Case Name: Bussey & Co. vs. Nelson & Co.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1880
Citations: 1 Mann. Unrep. Cas. 339
Docket Number: No. 7160
Parties: Bussey & Co. vs. Nelson & Co.
Judges: 
Reporter: Unreported cases heard and determined by the Supreme Court of Louisiana, from January 8, 1877, to April, 1880
Volume: 1
Pages: 339–339

Head Matter:
No. 7160.
Bussey & Co. vs. Nelson & Co.
Where a suit is pending against a single defendant, who dies, and whose succession is opened in the Second Court, the suit must be removed to that court, but where thex*e are other defendants, and property has been attached, the court originally seized of jurisdiction retains it.
If the deceased defendant was a non-resident and died out of the State, the court in which the suit was brought may appoint a curator ad hoc to represent his succession and his absent heirs.
Appeal from the Fourth District Court of New Orleans. Houston, J.
Gill for Plaintiff. Bayne, curator ad hoc, for Succession of Nelson, deceased.

Opinion:
Spencer, J.,
delivered the opinion reversing the judgment below, but on rehearing, Marr, J., delivered the opinion setting aside the first degree and affirming the judgment.