State Ex Rel. Hills, Inc. v. Recorder of Mortgages

FOURNET, Justice.

Relator proceeded by mandamus to compel the Recorder of Mortgages for the Parish of Orleans to cancel and erase the inscriptions of certain mortgages and vendor’s liens affecting the property purchased by relator and recorded against Henry J. Pettengill, now deceased, in favor of the Suburban Building & Loan Association, on the grounds: (1) That the inscriptions are perempted under the provisions of section 50 of Act No. 140 of 1932; and (2) that the Suburban Building & Loan Association having failed to oppose the administrator’s account and having permitted the widow and…