In Re Monrose

HIGGINS, Justice.

Mrs. Gladys Howcott, wife of Peter R. Monrose, Sr., brought proceedings against the recorder of mortgages for the parish of Orleans, and her husband, to cancel and erase from the mortgage records an inscription purporting to be a legal mortgage against her, resulting from the recordation of an abstract of an inventory by her husband, who was acting as administrator for their two minor children, who had inherited certain money from a third person.

The husband, as administrator of the estate of his minor children, made no defense.

The recorder of mortgages filed an exception of…