Rynella Mill & Mercantile Co. v. Segura
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Iberia; James Simon, Judge. Action by the Rynella Mill & Mercantile Company, Limited, against Armence Segura, in which certain mules and corn were sequestered. Judgment for defendant allowing exemptions, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
The question for decision is whether a debtor is entitled to exemption from the payment of his outstanding debts, although he is not the owner of the farm that he has cultivated.
Plaintiff sued defendant on a claim it has against him. At the same time it sequestered two mules and some corn.
It had a vendor’s privilege on the mules sequestered.
An exception was filed by defendant to the seizure of the corn and to have the sequestration dissolved.
The right of plaintiff’s privilege on the mules was not denied.
It follows that the exemption did not prevail in so far as plaintiff has a vendor’s…
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