Legal Opinion

Clark v. Glover

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided January 15, 1840PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OE THE THIRD DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF EAST FELICIANA, JUDGE SAUNDERS, PARISH JUDGE, PRESIDING. This suit commenced by injunction. The plaintiffs in injunction, S. & T. L. Clark, allege, that in April, 1837, they endorsed a note of one James C. Shule, for two thousand nine hundred dollars, and took a mortgage on a small plantation, and some slaves, to secure them against their endorsement.

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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OE THE THIRD DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF EAST FELICIANA, JUDGE SAUNDERS, PARISH JUDGE, PRESIDING. This suit commenced by injunction. The plaintiffs in injunction, S. & T. L. Clark, allege, that in April, 1837, they endorsed a note of one James C. Shule, for two thousand nine hundred dollars, and took a mortgage on a small plantation, and some slaves, to secure them against their endorsement. That said note became due, and was protested for non-payment, and'that judgment and execution thereon has been obtained against them, their property seized, and…

1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment dissolving an order of sequestration, granted at their instance. The property sequestrated was a slave, whom they allege to have been specially mortgaged to them by one James C. Shule, and to have been sold by the latter, to Slaughter & Badger, in whose possession he now is. The alleged ground for obtaining this order, was their apprehension that the slave would be removed out of the state. Various grounds are assigned in the judgment appealed from, for the setting aside of the *268sequestration. It will be unnecessary for us to notice them all, because we concur…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Egan v. FushSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1894
  2. Bres v. BoothSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1846

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