Goubeau v. New Orleans & Nashville Rail Road

By virtue of a judgment obtained by the plaintiff against the defendants, an execution was sued out, which he caused to be levied on the 20th of July, 1842, as stated in the sheriff’s return, “ on the proceeds of the sale of five slaves, which ivere seized and advertised to be sold on the 20th of August, 1842, with other property of the defendants, at the suit of the ■State of Jjouisiana and which slaves were sold on the said day.” On the 30th of the same month, Painter, Richardson, Layton’s executors and Gosselin, levied on the same proceeds, by virtue of executions issued subsequent to that…