Pharis v. Dyer

GLADNEY, Judge.

In this proceeding relator, Vallery Phar-is, seeks a writ of mandamus ordering the respondent, P. M. Dyer, Jr., Clerk of Court and Ex Officio Recorder of Mortgages, of Rapides Parish, to cancel and erase a chattel mortgage executed by relator. Following a trial and hearing judgment was rendered decreeing that the rule be made absolute and respondent was directed to cancel and erase the subject chattel mortgage. From this decree respondent has appealed.

On August 11, 1958, Pharis, who had purchased from E. S. Voelker Company, Inc. certain farm equipment, executed an act of…