Erwin v. Parham
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana, sitting as a court of equity. • It came up upon a demurrer to a bill filed by Andrew Erwin, which demurrer was sustained by the court, and the bill dismissed with costs. - The facts set forth in the bill, arranged in chronological order, were as follows:— In the year 1839, James M. Wall, a citizen of the State of Mississippi, appears to have been in possession of two plantations in…
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana, sitting as a court of equity. • It came up upon a demurrer to a bill filed by Andrew Erwin, which demurrer was sustained by the court, and the bill dismissed with costs. - The facts set forth in the bill, arranged in chronological order, were as follows:— In the year 1839, James M. Wall, a citizen of the State of Mississippi, appears to have been in possession of two plantations in Louisiana; and on the 16th of November, in that year, sold them, together with the stock and slaves upon them, to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
delivered the opinion of the court.'
This case comes up from the equity side of the Circuit Court for the Fifth Circuit and District of Louisiana, by appeal from a decree supporting a demurrer to a bill of complaint filed by the present appellant.
The bill, filed 24th February, 1847, states, in substance, that *201in the year 1842, one “William M. Beal, a resident of the city of New Orleans, obtained judgment in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, against James M. Wall, for the sum of $2,265.13 besides costs. That upon this judgment execution was issued in the…
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