Hall v. Mulhollan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. • This is an action of revendication. The plaintiff sues to recover two slaves (Adam and Peter,) and two horses, which he alleges to belong to him, but now in the hands of the defendant, as executor of his deceased father, John Hall, and which the latter withholds from him, and is about to sell un¿er an order of the Court of Probates.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. • This is an action of revendication. The plaintiff sues to recover two slaves (Adam and Peter,) and two horses, which he alleges to belong to him, but now in the hands of the defendant, as executor of his deceased father, John Hall, and which the latter withholds from him, and is about to sell un¿er an order of the Court of Probates. He further alleges, that he purchased the two slaves from his now deceased father, in Kentucky, for a valuable consideration, as will appear from a bill of sale, from his father…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The plaintiff sets up title to two slaves, under a conveyance from his father, the-testator of the defendant, and procured from the District Court, an injunction, inhibiting the defendant as executor, from proceeding to sell them as belonging to the estate. The answer admits the execution of the bill of *388sale, which is exhibited as evidence of title, on the part of the piaintiff, but denies that it is a sale, in as much as no price is stipulated, and no delivery ever took place. The defendant further pleads, that, the estate of Hall, is largely indebted in the State of Louisiana, and among…
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