Flower, King & Putnam v. Myrick

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The plaintiffs brought this suit, via ordinaria, against the defendant to recover an amount of eighteen hundred dollars secured by mortgage, and an additional amount unsecured by mortgage.

Miss Olive Ruth Myrick filed an intervention alleging that plaintiffs’ mortgage is a nullity for the reason that the mortgagor was not the owner of the property; that it was held at the time in indivisión *322by her and her co-heir, the mortgagor; that it had not been under the administration of her tutor, who never made any settlement of his tutorship, or…