Ouachita Nat. Bank v. Fuller

The Court of Appeal propounds the question whether service of citation upon the defendant personally is necessary in a foreclosure proceeding via ordinaria, against a nonresident mortgagor, when the plaintiff, holding a mortgage on the nonresident’s land in this state, evidenced by an\au thentie act importing confession of judgment prays only for a judgment in rem, recogniz ing the mortgage, and executory only by seiz ure and sale of the property mortgaged.

The plaintiff had a curator ad hoc appointed to represent the absent defendant, and the citation and. copy of the petition were served…