Huff v. Justice

CHASEZ, Judge.

This is an action for an alternative writ of mandamus directed to the Clerk of Court as Ex-Officio Recorder of Mortgages of Jefferson Parish to cancel and erase from the mortgage records the inscription of a moneyed judgment in favor of defendant, Mack Trucks, Inc., and also praying for a declaratory judgment decreeing that the judicial mortgage is unenforceable, null and void. The facts and evidence in this case are chiefly documentary and may be summarized in chronological sequence, as follows:

The plaintiff and his wife, on June 21, 1960, purchased Lots 23 and 24 of Square 32,…