MILLER v. NEW ORLEANS ACID & FERTILIZER CO.,

No. 32.

211 U.S. 496 (1909)

MILLER v. NEW ORLEANS ACID & FERTILIZER COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 4, 1909.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. E.B. Dubuisson, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. William J. Sandoz, with whom Mr. G.L. Dupre was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The law of Louisiana considers the property of the debtor as the common pledge of all his creditors. C.C. 1969. As a general rule, therefore, it contemplates an equality of right in all creditors as to all the property of the debtor, existing at the time an obligation against the debtor arises, unless a creditor, as the result of some lawful contract or from the particular nature of the debt to which the law gives...

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