Succession of Benjamin

The opinion of the Court was deliveréd by

Fenner, J.

Loeb & Sclioenfeld, holding a judicial mortgage on the immovables of the deceased, oppose the account herein filed by the administratrix, because, in distributing the proceeds of sale of the only immovable of the succession, the property No. 222 Baronne street, the administratrix awards a preference thereon in favor of Jules Aldigó, as a superior mortgage creditor.

Aldige’s claim to a mortgage rests on the following anomalous instrument :

(Face of Note.)

*613And the reverse of the note reads:

“State of Louisiana, ? Parish of Orleans. $

“Before me,…