Le Baron v. Dupont

This ease presents an issue*of fact whether the mahogany of which the proceeds are attached at the suit of Le Baron S' Son, belongs to their debtor, John Dupont, or to Gabriel Le Blanc, the plaintiff in the other, suit. It is proved by witnesses examined for Le Baron & Son that the mahogany was purchased by Dupont in his own name — that he chartered the brig Octavie to bring it to New Orleans — that the Octavie being wrecked at the port of shipment, he chartered another vessel, the brig Sarah Thorndike, to carry the mahogany — that this charter party was made by Dupont in the- name of his…