Michoud v. Girod
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Louisiana, sitting as a court of equity. The widow Pargoud and others, defendants in this, court, were complainants in the court below, and obtained a- decree in their favor,'from which the other parties appealed.
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This case was brought up by appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Louisiana, sitting as a court of equity. The widow Pargoud and others, defendants in this, court, were complainants in the court below, and obtained a- decree in their favor,'from which the other parties appealed. They alleged, that a series of fraudulent transactions occurred,'commencing in 1813,, by which they had been deprived of their fair share of the estate of Claude Frangois Girod, whose heirs they were, and that the chief agent in this fraud was Nicholas Girod; a brother of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
The conclusions to which we have come in this cause do not require from us any comment upon its facts.
We concur with the learned judge in the Circuit Court, in setting aside the purchases by which Nicholas Girod and Jean Francois Girod became the possessors of their testator’s entire estate. - But the morality and policy of the law, as, it is administered ifi courts of equity, induce us to add, , that those purchases were fraudulent and void, and may.:be declared to- be so, without any : further inquiry, upon, the ground that they were made by the. interYbntion of persons -who. were nominal…
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