Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Perkins v. Recorder of Mortgages

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided January 20, 1902No. 14,246Published

Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Crleans; .John St. Paul, Judge. Application by the state, on the relation of Henry C. Perkins, for a writ of mandamus to the recorder of mortgages and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.

1Opinion

On the Merits.

(Nov. 3, 1903.)

MONROE, J.

Relator, as the owner of two lots of ground in the city of New Orleans designated as lot 10 in the square bounded by Melpomene, St. Charles, Oarondelet, and Terpsichore streets, and lot 15 in the square bounded by Gravier, Baronne, Union, and *239Carondelet streets, instituted this proceeding in January, 1898, against the comptroller of the city of New Orleans, the state tax collector, and the recorder of mortgages, to compel those officials to cancel from the hooks of their respective offices certain tax inscriptions, and to prevent them from reporting the…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. State ex rel. Saunders v. KohnkeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1903
  2. New Orleans v. WarnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1899
  3. Powell v. Florida Land & Improvement Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1899
  4. Succession of ParhamSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1899
  5. Reed v. His CreditorsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1887

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