Williams v. Bank of Louisiana
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the court of prohates, for the parish of East Baton Rouge. This case commenced under a rule, or proceeding in the court of prohates for the parish of East Baton Rouge, taken on the Bank of Louisiana and others, heretofore mortgage creditors of E. A. Browder, deceased, whose mortgages rested on a certain plantation, called the “ Arlington Estate,” purchased by petitioner at the probate sale of the succession of said Browder, to show cause in twenty-five days, why…
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Appeal from the court of prohates, for the parish of East Baton Rouge. This case commenced under a rule, or proceeding in the court of prohates for the parish of East Baton Rouge, taken on the Bank of Louisiana and others, heretofore mortgage creditors of E. A. Browder, deceased, whose mortgages rested on a certain plantation, called the “ Arlington Estate,” purchased by petitioner at the probate sale of the succession of said Browder, to show cause in twenty-five days, why all the mortgages standing on the books of the recorder of mortgages, against the Arlington estate, should not be erased…
1Opinion of the CourtSimon, J.
This case originated in a rule taken by the plaintiff on the Bank of Louisiana and other persons, to show cause why certain mortgages existing in their favor on the records of the recorder of mortgages of the parish of East Baton Rouge, on certain property formerly owned by E. A. Browder, deceased, since his death sold by virtue of an order of the court of probates of said parish, for the purpose of paying the debts of the succession, and purchased by the plaintiff, should not be erased from the record books of the said recorder of mortgages. The grounds alleged are that all the creditors,…
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