New England Mortgage Security Co. v. Metcalfe

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

This was an action of the plaintiff company to fore - close a mortgage on the Ackland plantation situated in the parish of *348Catahoula. The plantation was owned by Mrs. S. J. Metcalfe. Her two children, R. S. Metcalf and Sallie B. Metcalfe, signed the notes held by plaintiff as makers with the mother, and also signed the act of mortgage as mortgagors. They were not the owners of the prop - erty. Miss Sallie B. Metcalfe claimed that she had a mortgage upon the property, but that she did not know that she had a mortgage on the property at the…