Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co. v. Saunders
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish of Vernon; Don E. So Relie, Judge. Action by the Rice-Stix Dry Goods Company against D. G. Saunders and others, in which D. G. Saunders, Jr., intervened, and action by the First National Bank against D. G. Saunders and others. Actions consolidated. Judgments for plaintiffs, and the Saunders-Turner Lumber Company appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
These two suits have been consolidated for trial. In both writs of attachment issued, under which were seized a number of tracts of land and of timber as the property of D. G. Saunders. At the date of the suit the title to said tracts of land and *83of timber stood on tbe conveyance records of tbe parish in the name of the Saunders-Turner Lumber Company, in the form of an absolute warranty deed executed by D. G. Saunders. In the suit of the First National Bank this conveyance was attacked as a fraudulent simulation. The Saunders-Turner Lumber Company pleaded and proved that the said sale was a…
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