Case Name: George W. Campbell v. Francis D. Clark
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1870-04
Citations: 22 La. Ann. 242
Docket Number: No. 2597
Parties: George W. Campbell v. Francis D. Clark.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 22
Pages: 242–243

Head Matter:
No. 2597.
George W. Campbell v. Francis D. Clark.
A surety on an attachment bond is no party to the suit, and need net bo made a party tj tli& appeal taken by tlio defendant from tbe judgment in the attachment suit.
Where the evidence in the record leaves the questions in dispute in clo.Vbt and uncertainty, the-Supreme Court will remand the cause for a new trial.
from the District Court, parish of Iberville. Posey, J.
Barrow cG Bope, for plaintiff and appellee. Samuel Mathews, for defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
Howe, J.
This suit was commenced by attachment, and in Ms answer the defendant, Clark, asked for damages against plaintiff and his surety on the attachment bond. He did not ask, however, that the surety he cited, nor was he cited. The motion, made by the plaintiff, therefore, to dismiss the appeal taken by defendant, on the ground that the latter has not made the surety a party to the appeal, must he-denied, the surety being no party to this litigation.
Upon the merits, the important question whether or not the claims of the plaintiff had been settled with the defendant, Clark, prior to the institution of the suit, is left in such doubt by the conflict of testimony, that we have deemed it proper to remand the cause for a new trial. C. P., 906.
It is therefore ordered that the judgment appealed from be avoided and reversed, and the cause remanded for a new trial; appellee to pay the costs of the appeal.
Rehearing refused.