Sauvinet v. Landreaux

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

King, J.

This action is instituted to recover from the defendant the amount of a legal mortgage inscribed upon the books of his office, which he omitted to include in a certificate furnished by him as recorder of mortgages. In the lower court there was a judgment against the defendant, from which he has appealed.

Henry Chevarre executed, in favor of the plaintiff’s testator, a special mortgage upon real property in the city of New Orleans, for the purpose of securing the payment of a note for $1800. The defendant who was, at the date of the act,…