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12 La. 93

Mourain v. Devall

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 15, 1838

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1838-03-15

Eastern Dist. APPEAL- EROJI THE COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF POINT COUrEE, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This case commenced by the executory proceeding on a note and mortgage made and executed by the defendants, D. and G. Devall, to the plaintiff, in part of the price of a plantation and slaves.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently January 1895

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Decided 1838-03-15

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Bullard, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2This is an appeal from an order of seizure and sale, after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain an injunction to arrest the proceedings.

¶3The appellant assigns for error apparent on the-face of the record, that the note and mortgage were the property of a *95different individual, and disclosed a total want of right in the plaintiff.

Where the payee of a note, endorsed by him. and even another after him, in blank, is in possession of it, he may sue and recover by the ex-ecutory proceeding, when the note is identified with a mortgage.When the payee is in possession of a note, on which his name is endorsed in blank, no proof of a re-transfer is necessary to enable him to recover.A judge is not bound to receive sureties in an injunction bond, residing out of the parish, and whose solvency and sufficiency is unknown to him.-

¶4The note presented, bears the blank endorsement of the plaintiff as original payee, and a subsequent blank endorsement of Delamar. Being now in possession of the original payee, he would be entitled to recover either with or without the'endorsements, and they might be struck out, or the last filled up on trial, if this were a proceeding in the via ordinaria.

¶5The case, as it is presented, cannot be distinguished from that of Barbarin vs. Daniels, 7 Louisiana Reports, 481, in which we held, that when the original payee is in possession of the note on which his name is endorsed in blank, no proof of re-transfer is necessary to enable him to recover.

¶6It is further assigned as error, that the defendants having obtained an order for an injunction, and tendered a sufficient bond, the judge should have ordered the clerk to file the petition and bond, and issue the necessary process.

¶7We think the judge did not err in declining, upon the rule against the clerk of his court, to compel him to receive as sufficient, a bond purporting to be signed by persons not resident in the parish, and whose sufficiency and solvency were unknown to him. Code of Practice, 304.

¶8It has been further argued, that the injunction ought to have been granted without bond with surety. To this it may be answered : 1st, that it was not asked; and 2d, that the record does not show on what grounds the injunction was claimed.

¶9It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment of the District Court be affirmed, with costs.

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