Legal Opinion

Hirsch v. People's Bank of Plaquemine

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided March 23, 1917No. 3009PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. In the matter of the bankruptcy of the Louis Danos Planting & Manufacturing Company. From a decree disposing of the final account of Dr. J. L. Danos, trustee, on opposition of the People’s Bank of Plaquemine, La., and of the petition of Emile Hirsch, the latter appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

WALKER, Circuit Judge.,

In January, 1906, Louis Danos made a series of notes, each payable to his order, amoaajiting in the aggregate to $60,000, which were secured by a mortgage and vendor’s lien or privilege on the Milly plantation. Thereafter the mortgaged property was conveyed to the L. Danos Planting & Manufacturing Company, a corporation, which will be referred to as the Danos Company. By the act of sale to that company it assumed the outstanding mortgage and vendor’s privilege notes, but the holders of those notes were not parties to that transaction. The Danos Company was adjudged…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Ketchum v. DuncanSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  2. Dodge v. Freedman's Savings & Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1876
  3. Swope v. LeffingwellSupreme Court of Missouri · 1880
  4. Johnston v. SchnabaumSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1908
  5. Casco National Bank v. ShawSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1887

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Lee v. MitchamCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
  2. Hunter v. Matt Stewart Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1919
  3. Lowish v. First Nat. Bank of MariettaCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1929
  4. Pollock v. National City Bank of ChicagoCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1919

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