E. S. Jaffray & Co. v. H. Moss & Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Young, APPEAL from the Ninth District Court, Parish of Tensas. Young, J. Defendants made a statement to the commercial agency of R. G-. Dun & Co. that they owned two plantations, costing $125,000, which were mortgaged for $33,000. Tlio proof is that tlie plantations did not belong to defendants, but to one of the members of the firm; that they only cost $75,350, and that they wore mortgaged for $88,000, instead of $33,000. Giving defendants credit for all property claimed by…
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Young, APPEAL from the Ninth District Court, Parish of Tensas. Young, J. Defendants made a statement to the commercial agency of R. G-. Dun & Co. that they owned two plantations, costing $125,000, which were mortgaged for $33,000. Tlio proof is that tlie plantations did not belong to defendants, but to one of the members of the firm; that they only cost $75,350, and that they wore mortgaged for $88,000, instead of $33,000. Giving defendants credit for all property claimed by them and by the individual members of the firm, the proof is that they owed $18,059 17 beyond their assets, taken at…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
Plaintiffs are engaged in jobbing and making sales of dry goods and general merchandise in tbe City of New York, and, on tlie 22nd of August, 1887, made a sale of a small stock of assorted goods to tlie defendants on terms of credit, and same were, at once, skipped to tkeir domicile in tlie State of Louisiana, for sale at retail, in the usual course of tkeir business. Soon after tke cargo reached its destination it *550was attached at the instance of various creditors of defendants, and formally taken into possession by the sheriff.
The claim of…
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