Lane v. Cameron

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

PiüNNBR, J.

Lionel L. Levy held a judgment against W. S. Calhoun operating as a judicial mortgage on his immovables from the date of its recordation in the parish of Grant, viz: July, 1870,

Mary S. Calhoun, the mother of W. S. Calhoun and of plaintiff, Mrs. Lane, died in 1871, and her two said heirs accepted her succession and were put in possession thereof, whereby the undivided half of her property thus falling to W. S. Calhoun became affected by the judicial mortgage resulting from the recordation of said judgment.

In 1873 W. S. Calhoun sold his…