Geilinger v. Philippi
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. This was a suit by way of third opposition, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, by-Caesar Philippi, syndic of the. creditors of Gilbert H. Green individually, and as' a member of the late commercial firm and partnership of Gilbert II. Green & Co., of New Orleans, and also of Green, Stewart & Co., of Liverpool, England, in the suits of.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. This was a suit by way of third opposition, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, by-Caesar Philippi, syndic of the. creditors of Gilbert H. Green individually, and as' a member of the late commercial firm and partnership of Gilbert II. Green & Co., of New Orleans, and also of Green, Stewart & Co., of Liverpool, England, in the suits of. Bank in Winterthur v. Gilbert H. Green, and Geilinger & Blum v. Gilbert. II. Green, on the docket of said Circuit Courfc…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
■ It is conceded by counsel for the plaintiffs in error that the St.. Charles Street property was, under the law of Louisiana,, community property, and liable for Green’s debts, and should have been surrendered to the syndic; that if Green had casually omitted it from his schedules it would have passed under the control of the syndic; and that if he had fraudulently omitted the property from his schedules and put the title in the name of his wife before the insolvency proceedings, an action would lie by the syndic to recover it. But it is contended that as' Green declared the property to be…
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