Cormier v. Pitre

HOOD, Judge.

This is a mandamus proceeding instituted by Edward Cormier and Eldalene C. Todd against J. W. Pitre, Clerk of Court for Jefferson Davis Parish, and Howe-Richardson Scale Company. Plaintiffs seek a judgment ordering the clerk of court: (1) To cancel and erase from the mortgage records of his office a certain materialman’s lien which had been filed by PIowe-Richardson; and (2) to return to plaintiffs a sum of money which plaintiffs previously had deposited in the registry of the court to “bond” that lien. The trial court rendered judgment granting plaintiffs the relief which they…