Walker v. Villavaso

Joseph S. Cueullu gave a mortgage on certain immovable property, in the Parish of St. Bernard, to secure the payment of two notes of 110,000 each, owing by him to defendant stipulating in the act of mortgage, on his failing to pay the notes at their maturity, eight per cent, interest from maturity, and tho fees of the attorney whom defendant should employ to collect them, and that the fee of the attorney should be ton per cent, on the capital which might be owing.

Cueullu subsequently sold the property mortgaged to plaintiff, who assumed tho payment of the notes and mortgage.

Cueullu brought…