Succession of Tilton

58 So. 223, 130 La. 547, 1912 La. LEXIS 888

• Court: Supreme Court of Louisiana
• Decided: April 8, 1912
• Docket: No. 18,844
• Status: Published

Opinion

SOMMERVILLE, J.

The tutrix and undertutor of Pearl Tilton, together with the latter’s coheirs, who are emancipated minors, proceed by rule to cancel the general mortgages resting upon the interest of the tutrix in certain real estate, and adjudicated to the minor, Pearl Tilton. They implead a mortgage creditor of theirs, and also a judgment creditor of Mrs. Tilton, now Mrs. Goldsmith, and ask for a cancellation of their mortgages.

These mortgage creditors resist movers in rule, and there is a judgment in favor of the creditors and against movers, decreeing that the sale of the property to the minor, Pearl Tilton, together with the judgment in her favor under which the sale took place, to be null and of no effect as to the credi tors named. From that judgment, movers in rule appeal and ask for a reversal thereof.

A full statement of the case is to be found in William E. Roberson v. Mrs. Mary E. Goldsmith et al., 130 La. 255, 57 South. 908; and it is therefore unnecessary to restate it.

[1] The judgment appealed from simply decrees that, in so far as the mortgage rights of defendants in rule are concerned, they are not affected by the judgment in favor of the minor, Pearl Tilton, against her tutrix; based on the latter’s confession, and the sale thereunder; the same being null and of no effect. We have decided that said judgment and sale are void as to one of the creditors. Roberson v. Goldsmith, 130 La. 255, 57 South. 908. It is void also as to these defendants in rule.

The judgment appealed from is correct; and it is affirmed.