Manice v. Duncan

Spofford, 3.

This is an hypothecary action, having for its object to subject a town lot and house in Natchitoches, and a slave named Harriet, to the payment of a certain judgment obtained in 1839, by the plaintiff, against William Long, the former owner of the property, and duly inscribed and re-inscribed in the mortgage office of the Parish of Natchitoches.

There is no dispute as to the former existence of the judicial mortgage; but it is contended on behalf of the third possessor, Mary Hilen Long, and the judgment debtor, William Long, (who intervenes to defend the title of the the former,)…