Advance Thresher Co. v. Breaux
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Acadia; William Campbell, Judge. Action by the Advance Thresher Company and others against S. Locke Breaux and others. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
Plaintiffs alleged three separate and distinct causes of action, one direct and the other two in the alternative. In the first plaintiffs charged that the act against which they leveled their attack was simulated and fictitious. In the second plaintiffs charged if the transaction whereby the principal defendant claimed ownership of the property under an alleged sale was not a simulation, or if they failed in the attempt to prove that it was a simulated sale, then the sale was a fraud for the purpose of thwarting plaintiffs in their endeavor to collect the amount due them by the vendor, who is…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Katz & Barnett v. GillSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1891
- State ex rel. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of United States v. Court of AppealSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1904