Graves v. Joyce

WATKINS, Judge.

This devolutive appeal was taken from a judgment by default rendered by the 22nd Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Tammany, Louisiana, on May 31, 1990. The record does not disclose that any testimony was presented, but the judgment was rendered based on documents, affidavits, and certain exhibits filed into the record.

The plaintiff, Emory Lea Graves, Sr., sought and procured an in rem judgment on a claim arising out of the nonpayment of a promissory note paraphed for identification with a “credit sale” of immovable property in St. Tammany Parish. The plaintiff…