State v. Judge of the Parish Court of New Orleans

Certain proceedings having been instituted by L. B. Macarty, to obtain the seizure and sale of property specially hypothecated to secure a note of seven thousand dollars, due him by one Scates, which property had been conveyed by a deed of sale to J. A. Spalding, who, in the said deed, had assumed the reversion of the mortgage; it became necessary to appoint a curator ad hoc to represent Spalding, who is an absentee. Langdon Elwyn, Esq., an attorney at law, was appointed to represent him, and such proceedings were subsequently had, contradictorily with him, as were necessary to execute the…