Tharp v. Edmiston

James H. Tharp foreclosed certain mortgages granted by S. Y. Edmiston, and at the foreclosure sale became the purchaser of the mortgaged properties. Tharp, the adjudicatee, then took a rule on W. P. Hickey, recorder of mortgages for the parish of Orleans, requiring him to show cause why he should not erase from the records of his office the inscriptions of eight alleged junior mortgages bearing against the properties sold in the foreclosure proceeding. Plaintiff in rule also asked “that the bidders (meaning, we take it, the holders) of said encumbrances and the Civil Sheriff be made parties”…