State ex rel. Gervais v. Williams

Relators herein, as owners of a certain building situated in the City of New Orleans, bring this action for alternative writs of mandamus, directed against.the Recorder of Mortgages for the Parish of Orleans and against the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company, to compel the erasure of a certain lien and privilege recorded by the latter respondent for materials furnished to a sub-contractor and placed in the relators’ building. The building contract was executed, recorded and bonded under the provisions of Act 139 of 1922.

All allegations necessary to sustain the writ are admitted, except…