Legal Opinion
Mercier v. Canonge
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided January 15, 1853PublishedCited by 4 opinions
Appeal from the Eifth District Court of New Orleans, Buchanan, J.
1Opinion of the Court
Slidell,* J.
The plaintiffs are creditors of J. F. Oanonge, their former tutor, who was appointedin 1S32, and gave the usual bond, with a surety. The object of the present suit is to enforce their alleged right of tacit mortgage upon certain real estate, which was mortgaged in the years 1837, 1838, and 1889, by Miss Aimee Ganonge, to the Citizens’ Bank and the Union Bank. Their pretensions are resisted by the Banks, who are the appellants in this cause, from a judgment according a preference to the tacit mortgagees.
The real estate in question never at any time stood upon the public records in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Louisiana State Bank v. SenecalSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1839
3Cited by4 opinions
- D'Aubin v. Mauroner-Craddock, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1972
- Guillot v. Cottonport BankLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1961
- Olevia v. RuscianaLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1943
- West Monroe State Bank v. CalvertLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1932