Legal Opinion

Godwin v. Neustadtl

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided April 8, 1895No. 11,634PublishedCited by 13 opinions

APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Bightor, ./. The present suit is the sequence of one brought by the plaintiff against the same defendant, which terminated in a judgment of this court rendered in May, 1890, which will be found reported in 42 An. 737. In that suit the plaintiff sued to recover certain immovable property which had been conveyed to her by an authentic act of sale to the defendant, on the ground that said sale was a simulation,…

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APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Bightor, ./. The present suit is the sequence of one brought by the plaintiff against the same defendant, which terminated in a judgment of this court rendered in May, 1890, which will be found reported in 42 An. 737. In that suit the plaintiff sued to recover certain immovable property which had been conveyed to her by an authentic act of sale to the defendant, on the ground that said sale was a simulation, executed for the purpose of protecting the property from a seizure under a judgment which might be rendered against her in…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, 0. J.

We may say at once that NeustadtI, not having himself appealed, is not authorized to ask an amendment of the judgment obtained by intervenors.

We think a determination of the issues presented to us will be disposed of by taking up first the situation between the plaintiff and defendant without reference to the intervention which has been filed. As between those parties the issues are within narrow compass. Without assigning any reason for its judgment to that effect the District Court perpetuated the injunction which NeustadtI had caused…

2Cited by13 opinions

  1. Appalachian Corp. v. Brooklyn Cooperage Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1922
  2. Farley v. Frost-Johnson Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1913
  3. Choppin v. DauphinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1904
  4. Smith v. PhillipsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1932
  5. Doullut v. SmithSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1906

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