State ex rel. Board of Com'rs of Buras Levee Dist. v. N. A. Baker & Son
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of Plaquemines; R. Em-met Hingle, Judge. Mandamus by the State, on the relation of the Board of Commissioners of Buras Levee' District to compel the erasure from the records by the clerk and ex officio recorder of Plaquemines Parish of a certain contract between relator and N. A. Baker & Son, with appearance by Wisner Estates, Incorporated, in response to the rule.
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Appeal from Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of Plaquemines; R. Em-met Hingle, Judge. Mandamus by the State, on the relation of the Board of Commissioners of Buras Levee' District to compel the erasure from the records by the clerk and ex officio recorder of Plaquemines Parish of a certain contract between relator and N. A. Baker & Son, with appearance by Wisner Estates, Incorporated, in response to the rule. Judgment for plaintiff making the writ of mandamus peremptory and rejecting the reconventional demand of defendant Wisner Estates, Incorporated, and that defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDawkins, J.
This is a proceeding by mandamus to compel the erasure from the records by the clerk and ex officio recorder of Plaquemines parish of a certain contract between the plaintiff and the defendant N. A. Baker & Son which it is claimed operates as un incumbrance upon certain real property. The clerk, N. A. Baker & Son, the original party to the contract with plaintiff, and the Wisner Estates, Incorporated, to whom Baker & Son had transferred their rights, were all made parties defendant in the rule.
Defendant Wisner Estates, Incorporated, appeared in response to the rule, and first *415excepted to the…
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