Britton & Koontz v. Norment

Irsi/ey, O'.

On the 10th May, 1856, a notarial act of mortgage, on a plantation in. the parish of Concordia, from A. T. Welsh to S. B. Newman, to secure the payment of a note for seventeen thousand five hundred dollars, and interest, was recorded in that parish.

This mortgage was not reinscribed, until the Vlih September, 1867. On that day, Mrs. Shaw, who also had a special mortgage on the same plantation, duly registered, but originally inferior in rank to the Newman mortgage, applied to the Recorder of Mortgages of Concordia, to have the Newman mortgage cancelled and erased for want of…