Rhodes v. Beaman
Supreme Court of Louisiana
WESTERN DlST. APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE ' OP THE PIPTH PRESIDING. This is an action to rescind the sale and recover the value of certain property, as having been made in fraud of creditors.
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WESTERN DlST. APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE ' OP THE PIPTH PRESIDING. This is an action to rescind the sale and recover the value of certain property, as having been made in fraud of creditors. The plaintiffs allege they are creditors of the firm of E. M. Lowe & Co., in the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars, with interest, and that said firm have failed to pay said debt, and being in insolvent circumstances in 1831, one of the partners in the name of the firm, sold and delivered to C. Beaman, all their stock of goods, without appraisement or…
1Opinion of the Court
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delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action to annul a sale made by the debtors of the plaintiffs, and intervenors, to the defendants, or one of them acting for both, of a stock of goods, which contract is alleged to be in fraud of their rights. The case was submitted to a jury, whose verdict was in favor of the plaintiffs, and being followed by a judgment annulling the contract, and condemning the defendants to pay the value of the goods, the latter appealed.
The article 1979 of the Louisiana Code, declaring contracts fraudulent as to creditors, which are made with the…
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