Calcasieu Building & Loan Ass'n v. Goudeau

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is a summary proceeding by the owner of certain real estate against L. A. Goudeau, to whom the plaintiff agreed in writing-to sell the property, and the clerk of court, for the parish of Calcasieu, as ex officio- registrar of conveyances and recorder of mortgages, to have erased from the public records the registration and recordation of the contract to sell the property.

The petitioner alleges that on August 25,, 1932, it entered into a written agreement with L. A. Goudeau to sell him certain real property on which it had a vendor’s lien and mortgage, in the event that…