W. T. Adams Machine Co. v. Newman
Citations
- 107 La. 702
Syllabus
<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. Where all the essential elements and conditions for an absolute sale are pres ent, In a contract between parties, the effects flowing legally from that particular contract follow, whether the parties foresaw and intended them or not, and though they may refer to the contract as an agreement to sell or as a conditional sale.</p> <p>2. Where machinery has been sold to a planter which he has immobilized l>y attaching it to his plantation and the property to which the same was attached was permitted to be seized and sold without opposition of any kind In enforcement of a pre-existing mortgage, the seller cannot, after the sale as against the purchaser, recover the machinery under a claim of ownership.</p>
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- describing violations as “shocking or violative of universal standards of decency,” “arbitrary or capricious,” or counter to “the concept of ordered liberty.”
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Judges: Nicholls
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