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Powell v. Aiken & Gwinn

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 15, 1841PublishedCited by 11 opinions

APPEAL FROM THE COMMERCIAL COURT OF NEW ORLEANS. This suit commenced by the attachment of a quantity of cotton, or its proceeds, and of a slave, in the hands of Lam-beth and Thompson, which is alleged to be the property of the' defendants, Aiken and Gw'inn.

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APPEAL FROM THE COMMERCIAL COURT OF NEW ORLEANS. This suit commenced by the attachment of a quantity of cotton, or its proceeds, and of a slave, in the hands of Lam-beth and Thompson, which is alleged to be the property of the' defendants, Aiken and Gw'inn. There was a petition and supplemental petitions filed by the plaintiff at different times, as the facts Were disclosed relative to the several items of property sought to be made liable to his attachment against property of the defendants; and also a petition and supplemental petition^ put in by the intervenors, (Lambeth and Thompson,) and…

1Opinion of the CourtSimon, J.

On the 8th of April, 1840, plaintiff sued out an attachment against the defendants, which was first levied, among other property, on a negro slave named Edmund; on the 13th of the same month, Lambeth & Thompson intervened, alleging that at the time the attachment issued, said slave was their property, by virtue of a transfer made to them and one James Gwinn on the 1st of May, 1838; thgt said slave was delivered to their co-transfer-ree in Mississippi, and was by him brought to Louisiana in order to sell the same to pay the debt specified in the transfer, which debt is still due and unpaid.…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. New-Orleans Navigation Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1822
  2. Leggett v. PeetSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1830

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Bell v. Globe Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1901
  2. Gayarre v. TunnardSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1854
  3. Garnett v. Atoka State BankSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1924
  4. Fackler v. T. C. Clanton Lbr. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1931
  5. Fontenot v. ManuelSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1894

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