Pichot v. Recorder of Mortgages

Relator has sued out a writ of mandamus to compel the Recorder of Mortgages for this Parish to erase from his books an inscription for taxes of 1871. The State of Louisiana, being made party, has appeared and contested for and with the Recorder. The tax in question was registered January 4th, 1873; and this suit was brought March 21st, 1883, so that more than ten years had, at the date of bringing suit, elapsed since the recordation of said tax.

The relator contends that the tax in question is prescribed by ten years, and that it is the ministerial duty of the Recorder to cancel the…