¶1On the Merits.
¶2The object of this suit has already been stated.
¶3The defendant denied having ever sold the mules, etc., to the plaintiff, and says that, though the act of transfer to plaintiff appears to be a sale, it was in reality intended only to serve as security, and that he received no consideration.
¶4An intervention was filed, claiming the ownership of the stock sequestered, and in default a privilege on the same, to secure payment of an amount alleged to be due the intervenor, as holder of rent notes, for which he had already obtained judgment.
¶5From a judgment in favor of plaintiff and rejecting the intervention, both the defendant and the intervenor have appealed.
¶6The plaintiff has proved, by written evidence, the sale and transfer to him, for $1750, acknowledged to have been received and by parol, the delivery to him, through an agent, of the mules and horses in question, by the defendant; but the latter has failed to establish that the contract was not a sale but a suretyship, and that he received no consideration ; a defense which is the less founded, as it is self-destructive.
¶7The evidence establishes, with as much precision as can be expected in similar cases, that the judgment on which the intervenor relies, as *288obtained against the defendant, on rent notes acquired from the landlady, and in satisfaction or payment of which the stock in question is said to have been given, was obtained by default, the defendant making no resistance, or the shadow of a claim, which had ceased to have any existence against the defendant.
¶8In this regard, it appears that the intervenor. in furtherance of some understanding with the defendant, acquired from the landlord the two notes in question, settling for the'same in a draft on his correspondents, but that previous to this acquisition of the notes and issue of the draft, the intervenor had obtained cotton from the defendant for a value far exceeding the amount of the notes, and that said cotton had been turned over to him for the purpose of injuring the plaintiff some way or other.
¶9The intervenor claims that the mules and horses were given to him by the defendant in payment, and that the judgment in his favor was credited with their value.
¶10The record does not show that credit, but shows that the intervenor, plaintiff in the case, afterwards issued execution against the defendant for the whole amount, just as though the pretended giving in payment had not taken place.
¶11We remain irresistibly impressed that the rent notes were acquired by the intervenor from the landlady with money realized by the sale of cotton transferred to him by the defendant for some evil purpose, and that the judgment on which he relies has no foundation.
¶12We believe further, that the intervenor, who appears to have been on terms of intimacy with the defendant, was well acquainted with his business, his operations and even his designs, and was well cognizant of the fact of the transfer of the stock by defendant to the plaintiff.
¶13We have examined the bills of exception taken by the defendant and the intervenor to various rulings of the lower court, but find that, under the circumstances, the district judge did not err in deciding as he did. In themselves, they are of no force. ■ -
¶14We deem it unnecessary to enter into au explanation of the business ' relations between plaintiff and defendant, which were those of factor and plantin', and remain satisfied on the questions of fact between the parties litigant, that the district court has done them justice.
¶15Judgment affirmed.