Case ID: la-ann_7/html/0545-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Rost', J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mary L. Drake v. Henry Drake, Administrator et al.
    A minor’s mortgage, on the property of his tutor, commences from the date of the tutorship.
    The omission to insert the date of the mortgage, in the-judgment obtained for the minor against his tutor, cannot affect the legal rights of the minor. It is enough that the right of mortgage should be recognized in the judgment.
    The date of the mortgage is established by law, and may be proved aliunde.
    
    APPEAL from the District Court of the Parish of Bossier, Jones, J.
    
      Lawson and Fuller, for plaintiff.
    
      Peets, and Roysdon and Stafford, for defendants.
   By the court:

Rost', J.

There is no error in the judgment appealed from.

The minor’s mortgage on the property of Reuben, Drake, relied on by the defendant, commenced from the date of the tutorship in 1836. Although it would have been proper to insert the date of that mortgage in the judgment obtained for the minor against his tutor, the omission cannot affect his legal rights. It is enough that the right of mortgage should be recognized in the judgment. The date of the mortgage is established by law, and may be proved aliunde. This date being long anterior to that of the mortgage claimed by the plaintiff on the property of her husband, Reuben Drake, and the fund in the hands of the sheriff being insufficient to satisfy the minor’s judgment, she has no right to any portion of it.

The judgment is affirmed, with costs.