Conrad v. Prieur

This was an application to the Parish Court of New Orleans by F. B. Conrad, assignee of Thomas Banks, for a mandamus commanding the Recorder of Mortgages of the parish of Orleans, to raise certain mortgages on property of the bankrupt sold by the assignee, in order to give an unincumbered title to the purchasers. The petitioner represents, that amongst the surrendered property there were sundry valuable tracts of land which had been mortgaged by the bankrupt; that at the request of the first mortgagees on said property, he applied to the United States District Court for the Eastern District,…