Gumbel v. Pitkin
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR .TO THE CIRCUXT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. The statement of the case, prepared by the court, and prefixed to its opinion, was as follows : This case was before this court on a motion to dismiss the writ of error, the result of which is reported in 113 U. S. 545. It is now here for final disposition upon its merits.
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ERROR .TO THE CIRCUXT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. The statement of the case, prepared by the court, and prefixed to its opinion, was as follows : This case was before this court on a motion to dismiss the writ of error, the result of which is reported in 113 U. S. 545. It is now here for final disposition upon its merits. It appears by the record that a number of creditors of Joseph Dreyfus brought several actions.at law against him as a citizen of Louisiana in the Circuit Court of the United States for that district, the plaintiffs being citizens of…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justioe Matthews
delivered the opinion of the court.
The grounds on which the Circuit Court proceeded in denying the relief prayed for by the intervenor, and which have been reiterated in argument at the bar, are, 1st, that no levy of the writ of attachment was in fact made by the sheriff, because- he did not and could not acquire actual possession of the property sought to be seized), then in the possession of the marshal; it being essential, under the laws of Louisiana, to-the validity of the levy of such a writ, that the officer should thereby acquire actual and exclusive possession of…
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