10 Rob. 65 | La. | 1845
The plaintiff, a purchaser at a sheriff’s sale, gave two twelve months’ bonds, which she now seeks to have can-celled, on the ground that she has been evicted of the property-adjudicated to her, under a previous mortgage not recited in the certificate of mortgages read at the sale. She sued out an injunction to stay an execution which had issued on her bonds ; and this injunction having been made perpetual on a hearing of the case below, the present appeal was taken.
The record shows, that under a fieri facias in a suit of Goodman & Levy v. S. B. Nunn, an acre of land, with the improvements on it, was seized and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in April,-1840, for the sum of $814 08, for which she gave two twelve months’ bonds, with William Dunn, as her security, that the certificate of mortgages, which was read at the sale, contains a list of mortgages existing against Nunn, the defendant in execution, and, among others, that of his vendors, Patrick and Morgan, for $600, but makes no mention of a vendor’s privilege for $ 1000 on said acre of land, duly recorded in favor of William Terrell against his vendee John M. Trescott, who had sold the land to Patrick and Morgan; that in November, 1842, on an order of seizure and sale obtained by Terrell upon his vendor’s mortgage, the property was seized and sold to J. S. R. Guay. Under these facts, the petitioner was, we think, entitled to the relief allowed her below. The twelve months’ bonds were clearly given in error, and without cause or consideration, as there was no legal sale of the property to the plaintiff, and she was subsequently evicted thereof. The price she bid was not sufficient to cover the special mortgages on the property having a preference over the judgment under which the sale took place, it being only for $814 08, when the special mortgages amounted to $1600, to wit: $600 in favor of-Patrick and Mor
It has been urged by the appellant’s counsel that if the plaintiff is injured by the omission or carelessness of the parish judge, she should look to him for indemnity, and that the plaintiffs in execution should n’ot be the loser. In a case at Opelousas, in Sept, last (Smith v. Moore, 9 Rob. 65) we intimated that the recorders of mortgages are bound to state in their certificates all the mortgages existing on the property seized, although not standing in the name of the defendant in execution, if their records enable them to do so. We are, thei’efore, by no means prepared to say, that the parish judge would not be liable to the plaintiff, had she paid her bonds, and could not Recover back
Judgment affirmed.