Prats v. His Creditors

On the presentation of a second tableau of distribution by the syndics of the insolvent, his spn-in-law, Vionnet, made opposition, on the ground that he was a mortgage creditor of the insolvent, by an act granting a special mortgage, dated -13th of April, 1839, to secure to him the payment of two notes of six thousand dollars each, which had not been placed on the tableau.

The syndics answer this opposition by alleging, that the mortgage relied on and set up by the opponent, is null and void, having been made'without any consideration, and for the purpose of defrauding the creditors of Prats,…