Cumming v. Biossatt

The-judgment of the- court was pronounced by

Rost, J.

This is a third opposition,, in which three several mortgage creditors claim to-receive, by preference, the proceeds of the judicial sale of » slave..

In¡1835, Lewis Hoffman and Bis wife, believing themselves to be domiciliated in the parish; of Rapides, paying taxes and exercising their civil'and political rights in said parish, executed in favor of the Canal and Banking Company, apon- their homestead and a slave, a mortgage, which was duly recorded in the parish of their-supposed domicil. The priority of this mortgage in the parish of…