Powell v. Aiken
Supreme Court of Louisiana
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 Lambeth and Thompson, which is alleged to be the property of the defendants, Aiken and Gwinn.
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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 Lambeth and Thompson, which is alleged to be the property of the defendants, Aiken and Gwinn. 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 petitions 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 and 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 G-winn, on the 1st of May, 1838; that said slave was delivered to their co-transferree 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.…
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- Leggett v. PeetSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1830
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- Succession of MilneSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1842