Aillet v. Woods

24 La. Ann. 193

• Court: Supreme Court of Louisiana
• Decided: April 15, 1872
• Docket: No. 3758
• Status: Published

Opinion

Howe, J.

This is a suit upon a promissory note drawn as follows, to wit:

“ $10'00. West Baton Rouge, March 1, 1881.

•“ Five years after dato I promise to pay to the order of Mr. Pierre Aillet, the sum of one thousand dollars, loaned money, with Jive per ■cent, interest from date, payable annually in the month of March, and if the interest should fail to be paid, then the principal and interest, both due.

“ (Signed,) JAS. C. WOODS. ”

The suit was filed December 3, 1866, and citation served on defendant on the fifth. An amended petition was filed on April 4, 1867, alleging that the note sued on was given in renewal of one originally given by defendant to plaintiff for the purchase piice of a tract of ¿and, and bearing vendor’s privilege of date the twentieth of July, 1854.

Upon suggestion that tho defendant had become an absentee, a curator ad hoe was appointed to represent him.

The defense is a general denial, novation, and a plea of five and ten years’ prescription and the judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff, with recognition of Ms vendor’s privilege on the property described in tlie act of sale. The curator ad hoe has appealed.

There is evidence in the record to show that tho note was given as alleged by plaintiff in renewal of one having a vendor’s privilege on the land described, and we do not perceive any force in the pleas of novation and prescription.

The act of sale of the land was recorded July 20, 1854, and rein-scribed November 10, 1865. The privilege may have been postponed by peremption, tó tho claims of other privileged or mortgage creditors of defendant, lint it was not necessarily lost as to the defendant himself. Rev. C. C. 3369, Shepherd v. Orleans Press, 2 An. 113. The ■principal debt seems to have been kept alive; no other creditor is ■before us and we do not see clearly what practical interest the defendant has in tho only question wliich he discusses with much earnestness, namely: whether the judgment was correct in according a vendor’s ¡privilege on the land.

.Judgment affirmed.