Brown v. Womack

E. GORDON WEST, District Judge:

This is a suit by the Trustee in Bankruptcy of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Achord seeking to set aside a sale of some 163 acres of land made by Mr. Achord to the defendants some five *1111months before the Achords filed a petition seeking to be adjudicated bankrupts. The Trustee seeks first to have the sale of the 163 acres declared null and void as a simulated sale. Secondly, the Trustee asserts that the sale was made in contravention of Article 1984 of the Louisiana Civil Code which provides :

“Every contract shall be deemed to have been made in fraud of creditors, when…