Decuir v. Carnes

The facts certified by the judges of the Court of Appeal In the above-styled ease are as follows:

Jeff Prados owns 63 arpents of land in the parish of Iberia. It seems that he purchased 31% arpents of this land at one time and the balance on another date, and while the two purchases were separate, the land acquired in both comprises one tract.

But as some of the mortgages involved in this suit operate on the 63-arpent tract as a whole and others on one or the other of the parts separately, the separate parts, for convenience, are designated “A” and “B.”

Jeff Prados, the landowner, is indebted to…