Selby v. Marionneaux
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE O'F THE SECOND PRESIDING. This is an injunction suit t.o stay the sheriff’s sale of certain property. The plaintiff in injunction was the attorney at law in defending a suit of A. G. Marionneaux vs. J. Roop, for the price of a house and lot. The plaintiff in that suit had judgment with a mortgage, and that the property in question be seized and sold.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE O'F THE SECOND PRESIDING. This is an injunction suit t.o stay the sheriff’s sale of certain property. The plaintiff in injunction was the attorney at law in defending a suit of A. G. Marionneaux vs. J. Roop, for the price of a house and lot. The plaintiff in that suit had judgment with a mortgage, and that the property in question be seized and sold. Before seizure by the sheriff, and before the day of sale, Roop executed an act of sale of the same premises to his lawyer, the present plaintiff. The latter then…
1Opinion of the CourtCarleton, J.
On the 17th May, 1832, A. G. Marionneaux sold to Thomas Myers and John Roop, a lot of ground in the village of Plaquemine, for the price of eight hundred dollars, secured by mortgage bn the premises, and payable in March following. In September, Myers sold his half to Roop, who having failed to pay the original price, Marionneaux brought' suit therefor, on the 21st February, 1834. Roop answered the petition by Selby, his counsel, on the 25th April next following, and in April, 1835, judgment having been rendered in favor of Marionneaux, the lot in question was seized on the 9th May, and…
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