Thompson v. Levy

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

This'is a suit brought by plaintiff, a mortgagee, for a judgment against the defendant, the adjudicatee of the property on which plaintiff’s conventional mortgage rested. The purchaser at sheriff’s sale, by foreclosure, held a mortgage, second in rank. His bid on the property was for a small amount above the sum total secured as to its payment by the first mortgage. The claim of plaintiff is that by the effect of the adjudication defendant became personally responsible for the debt. Plaintiff does not affirm that the defendant ever by any act…