72 So. 445 | La. | 1916
The plaintiffs appeal from a judgment rejecting their demand to have a judicial sale of certain real estate to the defendant decreed null. The property was sold by the coroner, acting sheriff, by virtue of a writ of fieri facias on a judgment rendered in a suit entitled Bank of Leesville v. Powell Bros. & Sanders Co., Limited, et al., for $10,000, and interest and attorney’s fees. The judgment was rendered on two promissory notes of $5,000 each, secured by mortgage on the property. The plaintiffs are the holders of other notes secured by the same mortgage and of equal rank with the notes on which the judgment was rendered in favor of the Bank of Leesville.
13] The plaintiffs’ third contention is that W. J; Sanders was not subrogated to the mortgage when he acquired the judgment from the Bank of Leesville, and that therefore the writ of fieri facias issued at his instance, as subrogee, was invalid. Counsel for the plaintiffs says in his brief that this proposition is somewhat out of place in the present suit, but that it might have some bearing on the distribution of the proceeds of the sale. It is admitted in the plaintiffs’ petition that the judgment was transferred by the bank to W. J. Sanders; hence there is no merit whatever in the contention that subrogation to the mortgage recognized in the judgment did not take place.
The plaintiffs contend that the sale is invalid because the coroner, acting sheriff, failed to sign the return indorsed on the back of the notice of seizure, stating that it was served upon the defendants. The coroner •testified, without any objection on the part of the plaintiffs’ counsel, that he served the notice of seizure on the defendants, as recited in the return. It is also recited in the deed to the defendant company that the property was advertised for sale after the legal delays had expired from the date on which the notice of seizure was served. Hence the coroner’s failure to sign the return indorsed on the notice of seizure was of no consequence.
The plaintiffs’ sixth and final contention is that the sale was made for such an insignificant price that it amounted to confiscation. The sale was made for $2,000, exactly two-thirds of the appraised value, of the property. It is not contended that the appraisement was unfair or fraudulent. In his brief, the plaintiffs’ attorney, in effect, concedes that his allegation regarding' the price of the adjudication does not set forth a cause for annulling the sale; and we agree with him.
The judgment appealed from is affirmed at the cost of the appellant.