State Ex. Rel. Pickett v. Bullock

FOURNET, Justice.

This is a mandamus proceeding instituted by secondary mortgage creditors of the Llano Del Rio Company of Nevada to compel the Clerk of Court and Ex-officio Recorder of Mortgages for the Parish of Vernon to cancel and erase from the records of his office, in so far as it affects the rights of relators, a certain mortgage executed by the said company in favor of Theodore F. Cuno on February 23, 1926, on the ground that the mortgage was not reinscribed within ten years as required by Article 3369 of the Revised Civil Code.

The respondent clerk filed (1) exceptions of no cause and…