Case Name: Felix Gottschalk vs. Henry Meyer, on a Rule against H. Redwitz, Surety
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1876-11
Citations: 28 La. Ann. 885
Docket Number: No. 6290
Parties: Felix Gottschalk vs. Henry Meyer, on a Rule against H. Redwitz, Surety.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 28
Pages: 885–887

Head Matter:
No. 6290.
Felix Gottschalk vs. Henry Meyer, on a Rule against H. Redwitz, Surety.
The object of the law in giving the creditor a right to prevent the departure of the debtor for the period of three months, is not that the latter may be finally imprisoned upon a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum, but to compel him to pay the debtor or to make an involuntary surrender of his property,
whether the creditor’s remedy to compel a surrender be under the State or national law of bankruptcy, he has the same interest in enforcing the presence of his creditor, in order that this surrender may be effected, and although the State may be precluded, for the time being, from enforcing her own bankrupt law, she is not on that account prevented from affording her citizens the means of invoking the bankrupt law of the united States.
Therefore it is not true that, inasmuch as the general bankrupt law of the united States has' superseded, for the time being, the insolvent law of this State, it follows that the purpose of the statute authorizing an arrest in civil eases can no longer be fulfilled, -and consequently that the bond sued upon is void.
APPEAL from the Sixth District Court, parish of Orleans. Saucier, J.
Labatt, Aroni & Clinton, for plaintiff and appellee.
B. B. For-man, for Hugo Redwitz, surety, defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
Morgan, J.
This case is to be governed by the decision heretofore rendered by us in the case of Redwitz vs. the Judge of the Sixth District Court, Parish of Orleans, lately decided. Opinion Book No. 45, p. '72.
For the reasons therein assigned the motion to dismiss is refused.