Cragg v. Westmore

The plaintiff asks a mandamus upon the Register of Conveyances in New Orleans, to compel him to record an Act of sale purporting to have been passed before the plaintiff as a Notary Public, on-the 15th December, 1857.

We agree with the District Judge in the opinion that said act was not authentic, for the reason that the plaintiff was not then a notary public. He was formerly in commission as a notary, but it is admitted that his commission expired before May, 1857. The Act of March 12th, 1857 (p. 84), “ Relative to Notaries Public in and for the parish and city of New Orleans,” provided that…