Haraway v. Sledge & Norfleet Co.

The appellees, J.P. and R. Vance Norfleet, doing business under the name of Sledge Norfleet Company, obtained a decree in the court below against the appellants for $250, alleged in the appellees' bill of complaint to have been received by the appellants from the Federal Land Bank, of New Orleans, under circumstances that caused them to hold it in trust for the appellees. The case was tried on bill, answer, and proof, from which, among other but irrelevant matter, appears the following:

Sledge Norfleet Company, a corporation, held a second deed of trust on land owned by A.M. Haraway, securing…