Case Name: Stephen Duncan v. Gerard Brandon et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1870-04
Citations: 22 La. Ann. 248
Docket Number: No. 2641
Parties: Stephen Duncan v. Gerard Brandon et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 22
Pages: 248–248

Head Matter:
No. 2641.
Stephen Duncan v. Gerard Brandon et al.
Wlitro judgment has been obtained, against the defendant, with recognition of the mortgage cr¿ the rroperty specially hypothecated, a devolutive appeal will not suspend execution thereon, nor will the fact that a devolutive appeal is pending prevent the plaintiff, as a judgment creditor, from bringing a direct action to annul and set aside a simulated transier of other real estate, alleged to have boen made by the defendant to his children.
PPEAL from the District Court, parish of Concordia. Sough, J.
Farrar <£- Beeves and May c£- Speneer, for plaintiff and appellant. A. S. Ogclcn, for defendants and appellees.

Opinion:
Howe, J.
The plaintiff having obtained a judgment against Gerard Brandon lor a large sum, which likewise made executory a mortgage given upon a plantation as security for the debt, caused the plantation to be sold, and realized a portion of the claim, leaving a balance due him, however, of about $30,000.
The defendant, Brandon, took a devolutive appeal from this judgment.
The plaintiff then instituted this action to set aside, as simulated apt! absolutely null and void, a transfer of other real estate, alleged to have been made by the defendant, Brandon, to his children. He averred himself to be a. creditor as above stated.
The defendants filed their exception that the action was premature, inasmuch as the defendant, Brandon, had taken a devolutive appeal from the judgment in favor of plaintiff. The court maintained the exception and dismissed the suit, and the plaintiff has appealed.
The plaintiff sues in virtue of Ms relation as a creditor. His judgment is the highest evidence of that relation. The devolutive appeal taken by Brandon did not stay its execution by the seizure and sale of Brandon's property, and we are unable to perceive on what principle it should suspend the right of plaintiff, by such an action as the present, to preparo the way for a seizure and sale, by sweeping away what is alleged to be a simulated transfer, a corpus sine anima, which easts a shadow on the title of the judgment debtor.
It is, therefore, ordered that the judgment appealed from he avoided and reversed, and the cause remanded to be further proceeded with according to law, the appellees to pay the costs of the appeal.
Rehearing refused.