D'Armand v. Sheriff
D'Armand v. Sheriff
Opinion of the Court
By virtue of several writs of fi. fa. against O. W. Fluker, the Sheriff of the parish of East Feliciana, seized on the first of February, 1867, six mules, two horses, one four mule wagon and harness, and one family carriage and harness, as the property and in the possession of said Fluker, and appointed him custodian1 thereof. On the twenty-seventh of the same month, J. G. D’Armand, the brother-in-law of Fluker, enjoined the sale of said property, claiming to be owner thereof by an authentic act of sale on the fourth of January, proceeding from Fluker to himself.
The defense is that said sale is simulated and made by said Fluker to defraud the creditors of said Fluker, who is insolvent.
The case was tried before a jury, who found a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and from a judgment thereon, after a fruitless attempt to obtain a new trial, the defendants have appealed.
Admitting that the contract of sale was real and the price actually paid, there was no delivery before the seizure. The sale was made in the town of Clinton, of all the judgment debtor’s property, and which was then on the “ Pond place,” occupied by him and his family. The delivery is claimed to have been effected by the vendor handing to his wife, on his return home that day, the following instrument:
Clinton, La., January 4, 1867.
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“ Mrs. E. J. Fluker is hereby authorized to take in charge the mules, forage, and plantation implements, and use for the purpose of making a crop.
“ J. G. D’ARMAND.”
It is therefore ordered that the judgment appealed from be reversed and that there be judgment in favor of the defendants, dissolving the injunction herein, and condemning plaintiff and his surety to pay defendants one hundred and fifty dollars damages and costs in both courts.
Eehearing refused.
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