Mitchell v. W. T. Grant Co.

In this case, a state trial judge in Louisiana ordered the sequestration of personal property on the application of a creditor.who had made an installment sale of the goods to petitioner' and' whose affidavit asserted delinquency and prayed for sequestration to enforce a vendor’s lien under state law. The issue is whether the sequestration violated the Due Process -Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because it was ordered ex parte, without prior notice or opportunity for a hearing.

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On February 2, 1972, respondent W. T. Grant Co. filed suit in the First City Court of the City of New Orleans,…