Erwin v. Jones

5 La. 344

• Court: Supreme Court of Louisiana
• Decided: March 15, 1833
• Status: Published

Opinion

PoRtee, J.

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case comes before us on an appeal from an interlocutory judgment of the court of the first instance, setting aside a writ of sequestration, which the plaintiffs had taken out on the inception of the suit.

The defendant is the third possessor of mortgaged property, and no ground is alleged for the sequestration, save that the plaintiffs have a lien on the property in the defendant’s hands.

So the question raised is whether the rights of a mortgagee creditor, can be enforced by the writ resorted to in this case.

By one of the provisions of the 275th article of the Code of Practice, mortgaged property may be sequestered in case it is about to be removed out of the state before the mortgage can be enforced. The creditor is required to make oath of the facts which induce him to apply for the writ. Code of \Practice, 275, no. 6. There has been no material change in our legislation since, which does away with the necessity of complying with the rule thus prescribed. In the present case, the plaintiff has wholly failed to bring himself within it. The> affidavit does not state the slaves are about tti-.be removed, nor make any allegation that there was any necessity whatever for issuing the writ.

It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment of the District Court he affirmed with costs.