Swift & Co. v. Leon Cahn & Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; Percy Saint, Judge. Action by Swift & Co., Limited, against Leon Cahn & Co., and others. Erom a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, C. J.
Plaintiffs brought suit on a promissory note against one Bonvillain, and, by a supplemental petition, filed one month thereafter, sued out an attachment, and seized certain sugars in the possession 1 of Bonvillain, on the allegation that Bonvillain was giving an unfair preference to one of his creditors, Cahn & Co., by shipping his crop of sugar to Cahn & Co. as fast as he manufactured it. Cahn & Co., claiming that the sugars were pledged to them, applied to the court by motion to be allowed to bond them, under the provisions of Act 51, p. 92, of 1S76; and, the court having so ordered, they…
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- Swift v. BonvillainSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1916
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