State Ex Rel. Thoman v. Williams

The relators proceeded by mandamus to compel the recorder of mortgages to cancel an inscription of a paving lien recorded against their property, for $91.56, with interest at 6 per cent, per annum from the 8th of October, 1896. They contended that the lien was extinguished by the prescription of ten years, under article 3544 of the Civil Code, and under the provisions of the Act 46 of 1918, p. 66. They averred that the contractor, in' whose favor the lien was recorded, had not been heard from for many years, that they believed that he was dead and that they did not know who were his heirs at…