Adle v. Prudhomme

Plaintiffs bring this hypothecary action against defendants, third possessors of property formerly belonging to plaintiffs’ father and tutor, Baptiste Adié. They claim that the property is subject to their tacit mortgage, for the sum of about twelve thousand dollars, balance due them by their tutor, as per account of tutorship, and judgment thereupon.

The land on which plaintiffs seek to enforce their mortgage, is the separate property of Mrs. Prudhomme, one of the defendants, by inheritance from her father, Charles Noyrit, deceased. Charles Noyrit purchased the land from Baptiste Adié on the…