State Ex Rel. Pittman Bros. Const. Co. v. Watson

ROGERS, Justice.

This case was submitted for decision, without oral argument, on the joint motion of counsel for the parties as provided by section 8 of Rule IX of this Court. It presents an appeal by S. Y. Watson, clerk of court and ex-officio recorder of mortgages in and for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, from a judgment rendered in favor of Pittman Brothers Construction Company by the Nineteenth Judicial District Court.

The suit is one in which Pittman Brothers Construction Company is asking for a writ of madamus to compel the clerk .of court to erase from the mortgage records of the parish…