Glenn v. Bresnan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Seventeenth.Judicial District Court, Parish of Yermilion; William Pierrepont Edwards, Judge. Action.by George A. Glenn against John Bresnan to foreclose a mortgage. The Gueydan Rice Mill, Limited, intervened. Judgment for plaintiff for the entire proceeds of the sale, and the intervener and third opponent appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
The defendant, John Bresnan, owned a plantation consisting of more than 400 acres of land, on which he resided with his family. In 1903 defendant borrowed $9,-000 to pay off the purchase price, and secured the loan by a special mortgage on all his lands. The act did not contain a waiver of his homestead rights under the Constitution of 1898.
In 1904 the defendant executed a second *1015mortgage on the same plantation to secure advances to make a crop. In this second mortgage the defendant and his wife waived their homestead rights.
Plaintiff as holder of the note secured by the first mortgage sued…
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