Dunlap v. Hundly
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Pistrict Court of Madison, Curry, J. The plaintiff enjoined an order of seizure and sale obtained by the defendant Hundly, against the plaintiff, on the record of ajudgment rendered in Mississippi.
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APPEAL from the Pistrict Court of Madison, Curry, J. The plaintiff enjoined an order of seizure and sale obtained by the defendant Hundly, against the plaintiff, on the record of ajudgment rendered in Mississippi. The petition charges in substance : That in the winter or spring of 1837, the petitioner purchased ?■ negro man, Henry, from Thomas Hundly, a negro trader, who had brought said negro from the State of Virginia to the State of Missis T sippi, for sale as merchandize: that the sale and purchase of the slave was made in Mississippi: that said slave was brought into the State of…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of court was pronounced by
Slidell, J.
Hundly had obtained an order of seizure and sale on a judgment recovered against Dunlap in Mississippi. Dunlap thereupon filed his petition for an injunction, in which he avers, under oath, that a plea which he had filed to the merits in the suit in Mississippi had been fraudulently withdrawn, and a confession entered without his authorization. He then sets forth various grounds of defence which he had against the action, and avers the note upon which the suit in Mississippi was brought to have been void under the constitu. tion of…
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