Cain v. Bouligny

This is an appeal from a judgment ordering a mandamus to be issued, commanding the Recorder of Mortgages of the parish of Jefferson to erase from the records of his office the bond of the appellee, as Marshal of the City Court of Lafayette, which the Recorder certifies as creating a general mortgage.

The law by virtue of which the City Court of Lafayette was established, was passed on the 2d of April, 1835. Bullard & Curry’s Digest, 229. It is true that by the 6th section of this law, the Marshal to be appointed is to give a bond in the manner prescribed for sheriffs, conditioned for the…