Case ID: la-app_2/html/0473-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      ELLIOTT, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 4033.
    First Circuit Appeal.
    GULF FINANCE SECURITIES CO. v. GEORGE B. TAYLOR Lazard J. Levy, Intervenor and Third Opponent.
    (June 30, 1925. Opinion and Decree.)
    
      (Syllabus by the Editor.)
    
    1. Louisiana Digest — Chattel Mortgages— Par. 4.
    One who purchases an automobile in good faith in a parish where there is no record of a chattel mortgage against it acquires good title, free of mortgage. even though there was a chattel mortgage in another parish at the time of the sale.
    (See Act 198 of 1918, par. 2. Editor’s note.)
    Appeal from the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District, Parish of St. Tammany, Hon. Prentiss B. Carter, Judge.
    This is a suit to foreclose a chattel mortgage. The purchaser of the automobile prior to the foreclosure intervened.
    There was judgment for intervenor and plaintiff appealed.
    Judgment affirmed.
    Miller & Miller, of Bogalousa, and Sumter Marks, of New Orleans, attorneys for plaintiff, appellant.
    L. Y. Cooley, of Slidell, attorney for defendant, appellee.
   ELLIOTT, J.

The plaintiff, Gulf Finance Securities Co., held a chattel mortgage on a Ford truck owned by defendant, George B. Taylor.

Defendant resided in New Orleans at the time the mortgage was granted and the truck was also situated there at that time. Defendant then moved to the Parish of St. Tammany and removed the truck to his new domicile. The chattel mortgage was recorded in New Orleans but not in St. Tammany parish. The truck was seized by a judgment creditor of defendant in the Parish of St. Tammany, and sold at constable’s sale to L. J. Levy, intervenor.

Plaintiff’s contention is that the mortgage followed the truck to St. Tammany parish. L. J.' Levy was an innocent purchaser at judicial sale in St. Tammany parish and knew nothing of the mortgage. His title to the truck is good. See Wilson vs. Lowrie, 156 La. 1062, 101 South. 549.

The judgment appealed from is correct and must be affirmed.

’ The plaintiff and- appellant to pay the cost in both courts.