White v. Bird

On the 2d March, 1867, Thompson J. Bird, sheriff of the parish of East Baton Rouge, executed a judgment in favor of the Heirs of A. Bird v. D. T. Ross.

The distributive share in the judgment of one of these heirs, Thompson W. Bird, was twenty-one hundred dollars, which he had previously, on the 21st April, 1866, transferred and assigned to Jackson E. Libby.'

Libby died in 1866, and Thompson W. Bird qualified as his testamentary executor, and in that capacity he claimed, and could have received the distributive share from the sheriff, when on the day of the sale Wm. H. Graham, the tutor of…