Smith v. Moore

This is an action against the late judge of the

parish of St. Mary, and, ex officio, recorder of mortgages, to recover damages for having given an imperfect certificate of mortgages on a tract of land about to be offered at a sheriff’s sale. The alleged defect consists in omitting to certify a judicial mortgage resulting from the record of a judgment against Lewis Moore, the former owner of the land. The land was seized as the property of Wilson, who had purchased from Lewis Moore; and while the latter was the owner, the judgment operating as a judicial mortgage, was recorded. Bemis became the…