No. 7699 Precedential Processed

State ex rel. Pasley v. Recorder of Mortgages

Louisiana Supreme Court · Filed July 1, 1880 · 32 La. Ann. 1306

Also decided on this docket: La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., November 2, 1951 54 So. 2d 847; La. Ct. App. 3d Cir., July 18, 1980 386 So. 2d 1056; La. Ct. App. 4th Cir., February 3, 1977 339 So. 2d 955

Cited by

State ex rel. Sitges v. Bayou Terre Aux Boeufs Drainage Dist. 65 So. 2d 407 La. Ct. App. 4th Cir. 1953
State Ex Rel. Thalheim v. Clancy 118 So. 28 La. 1928
State ex rel. People's State Bank v. Police Jury 97 So. 584 La. 1923

Opinion text

‘The writ of Mccnda/nms Is only intended to enforce a clearly recognized right and compel the performance of a ministerial duty with respect to that right. It is to supply the want of any other adequate remedy, not to supersede the ordinary forms. 'The right to have a privilege or mortgage cancelled cannot he tested unless those having a real or pretended interest he made parties.