Legal Opinion

Firemen's Insurance Co. of New Orleans v. Gillingham

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided January 15, 1842PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Grieeith and. Barnes are appellants from a judgment of the Commercial Court of New Orleans, Waits, J.

1Opinion of the CourtGarland, J.

Under a judgment obtained, and execution issued thereon by the plaintiffs against the defendants, Griffith & Barnes became the purchasers, for $8000 cash, of a lot of ground and the improvements thereon, situated in the faubourg Delord. When the sheriff offered the property for sale, he read a certificate from the Register of Mortgages, stating that there was a mortgage on said property in favor of Louise Delord Burthe, wife of Dominique Frangois Burthe, for $3600 and interest, prior to that of the plaintiffs ; the certificate then says, ‘ which last mortgage and reversion are diminished each…

2Cited by6 opinions

  1. Samuel B. Hobart and Others, of the Brig Hope and Cargo v. Andrew Drogan and Others, LibellantsSupreme Court of the United States · 1836
  2. Sergeant v. LinkousSupreme Court of Virginia · 1887
  3. Investors Mortgage Co. v. TheriotLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1928
  4. Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. v. ScottLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1926
  5. Bacas v. HernandezSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1879

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