2 La. 571 | La. | 1831
delivered the opinion of the court.
The administrator complains of the judgment of the court of probates sustaining the oppositions of Andrus, and Lou-allier .to the tableau of distribution.
Andrus, endorsee of a note given by the deceased, for the balance due on a former note, given to secure the pricé of a tract of land, complained he was placed on the tableau as a mere chirographery creditor, while he was a privileged and hypothecary creditor on the proceeds of the sale of the land.
Louallier complained that he is placed as assignee of the claim of the price of certain slaves, bought by the deceased ata probate sale, as a chirographery creditor, while he ought to be placed as a privileged or mortgage creditor therefor.
The claim of Andrus was resisted on the ground that as he was the endorsee, given for a balance due on a larger one, for the price of a tract of land, he could not avail himself of the privilege or men gage which attached on the former note.
It is urged the note in the opposing creditor’s possession, is not on its face connected with the act of sale, on which the privilege or mortgage arises, and cannot be shewn to be so, by parole evidence; to permit this being done, would be to give effect to a parole mortgage, contrary to the provisions of the Louisiana Code, art. 3272; and the notary ought to have made a memorandum at the foot of the note. — 2 Mo-reau’s-Dig. 70, § 4.
We think that, although it is certain that a conventional mortgage cannot be the result of a parole agreement, the right to the mortgage resulting from the transfer of the claim to which the mortgage is attached, may be proved by parole testimony.
The law requires the notary to make a memorandui » .d the foot of a note, given for the payment of a sum secured by a mortgage; but it does not require him to certify the transfer of such a note, or any which is given as a renewal of the former. ]
Louaillier’s pretensions were set aside on the ground that his mortgage was not registered in the office of the parish ' judge. The privilege or mortgage results from the pre-ces verbal of the estate of a deceased person, sold by
We think the court of probates did not err, in sustaining the opposition of the appellees.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed, that the judgment of the court of probates be affirmed, with, costs.