Verret v. Rougeau

KNOLL, Judge.

The sole question in this appeal is whether the vendor’s liens, timely recorded on June 28, 1984, and June 5,1986, are preferentially ranked over a previously recorded judicial mortgage, dated October 16, 1979, against one of the vendors in the chain of title of the property. The trial court held that the vendors lien outranked the previously recorded judicial mortgage.

On October 16, 1979, Ethel Darden recorded a judicial mortgage in her favor and against her former husband, Roger Dar-den, for past due alimony and for wrongful conversion of her private property. Five years later,…