Labauve v. Slack

Supreme Court of Louisiana
Labauve v. Slack, 28 La. Ann. 296 (La. 1876)
Moegan, Morgan

Labauve v. Slack

Opinion of the Court

Moegan, J.

Zenon Labauve held two special mortgages upon a plantation owned by Mrs. Emily Woolfolk and Joseph B. Woolfolk. These mortgages were converted into judgments in August, 1865. The judgments were recorded on the day they were rendered. J. B. Woolfolk sold his interest in the mortgaged premises to Austin Woolfolk in September following. Labauve’s mortgage was not interfered with by this sale.

In January, 1868, Labauve issued a writ of fieri facias on one of his judgments. Under this writ the property mortgaged was seized and advertised for sale. Before the sale J. B. Woolfolk petitioned the United States Court here to be declared a bankrupt. The sale took place notwithstanding his surrender. Labauve became the purchaser. Austin Woolfolk is dead. His succession is represented by his executor. This' suit is instituted in order to make the. property purchased by Austin Woolfolk from J. B. Woolfolk subject to the mortgage Labauve held against it at the time it was purchased. The defense both as to the defendant and the intervenor is that J. B. Woolfolk was declared a bankrupt and Labauve’s debt was discharged.

We do not see how the discharge in.bankruptcy of J. B. Woolfolk can release Austin Woolfolk’s property from an incumbrance in favor of La-bauve, that property never having been before the bankrupt court, and Labauve’s security never having been affected thereby. The mortgage was on the property when Austin Woolfolk purchased it, and it is there now.

Judgment affirmed.

070rehearing

On Rehearing.

Morgan, J.

In this case the error which we granted the rehearing to correct was in the decree. We affirmed the judgment of the district court, when we intended to reverse it.

A further examination of the record satisfies us that the principles upon which the case was decided were correctly stated.

*297It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that our former judgment be set aside and annulled, and it is now ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the judgment of the district court be avoided, annulled, ancl reversed, and'that tho property described in plaintiff’s petition be declared subject to the mortgage therein recited, and that the same be seized and sold, and the amount of the judgments as recited in the petition against Joseph B. Woolfolk be paid out of the proceeds thereof, with all the costs and costs of this suit.

Reference

Full Case Name
Mrs. Elise Labauve v. Henry R. Slack, Testamentary
Status
Published