Kaplan v. Pettigrew

HALL, Judge.

This is a mandamus proceeding to compel the Clerk of Court of the Parish of Jefferson, as Ex-Officio Recorder of Mortgages, to cancel from the public records the recor-dation and two reinscriptions' of a labor and materialman’s claim filed by the defendant, Vernon Pettigrew. The District Judge ordered the erasure of the inscriptions and the defendant materialman appealed.

The facts of the case are not disputed. Vernon Pettigrew, doing business as Petti-grew Construction Company, was engaged by a general contractor to furnish labor and material for certain construction work being…