Repplier v. Syndics of Gow
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the court of the first district. The plaintiff claimed to be placed on the bilan of the insolvents as a privileged creditor, by virtue of an act, wherein the wife, one of the insolvents to secure the payment of six thousand dollars, represented herself as a public 1 , . / merchant, and pledged to him a slave and all her stock in trade.
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Appeal from the court of the first district. The plaintiff claimed to be placed on the bilan of the insolvents as a privileged creditor, by virtue of an act, wherein the wife, one of the insolvents to secure the payment of six thousand dollars, represented herself as a public 1 , . / merchant, and pledged to him a slave and all her stock in trade. In the act it was stipulated that the goods pledged were put and should remain in the possession of the husband as a third person agreed upon by the parties. The act was passed on the twenty-eight of July 1829, and the failure of the husband and…
1Opinion of the CourtMathews, J.
In this case the opposing creditor claims a privilege on the estate of the insolvents to the amount of six thousand dollars, alleging, that property to that amount had been pledged to him by Mrs. Gow, who represented herself in the act by which the pledge was made as a publie merchant. He is placed on the bilan as a privileged creditor oniy for one thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-two cents. And made opposition to its homo-logation, which being overruled in the court below, he took the present appeal.
In support of the privilege claimed by the appellant, reliance is had…
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