Case Name: S. Meyer vs. W. T. Glathery. Mary S. Kidd, Intervenor
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1885
Citations: 1 Gunby 22
Docket Number: 
Parties: S. Meyer vs. W. T. Glathery. Mary S. Kidd, Intervenor.
Judges: 
Reporter: Legal points decided by the Second circuit court of Louisiana (Gunby's Reports)
Volume: 1
Pages: 22–22

Head Matter:
S. Meyer vs. W. T. Glathery. Mary S. Kidd, Intervenor.

Opinion:
Mayo, J.
A sale without deliver}' has no effect as to third persons; and where the vendor remains in possession, the sale is presumed to be a fraudulent simulation.
2. The law does not require sales of personal property to be in writing or recorded, and such unnecessary formalities, so far from strengthening the title, only excite suspicion.
3. The fact that intervenor did not testify and swear to the payment of the price and to the bona fides of the transaction attacked, when she could easily have done so, if such were the truth, furnishes a strong presumption against her.