Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Savote

CIACCIO, Judge.

Defendant files this devolutive appeal from an award of a deficiency judgment in the amount of $6,810.40 which was summarily granted against him. We affirm the judgment of the district court.

The sole issue for our review is whether an act of chattel mortgage which contains illegible signatures by an unidentified notary and attesting witness is such a defect as to invalidate the executory process and serve as a bar to a deficiency judgment.

The facts are uncontested:

On May 12, 1986 defendant purchased á 1982 Honda Prelude automobile from Don Bohn Ford, Inc. At the time of the…