Case ID: mann-unrep-cas_1/html/0121-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Spencer J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 6718.
    Samuel Lawson vs. Z. Bruen.
    Upon a motion to dismiss on the allegation that the judgment appealed from was rendered on confession, this court must of necessity test the question whether the answer was a confession.
    When a first mortgagee buys the mortgaged property, the price being more than sufficient to pay his mortgage, and there are several mortgages posterior to his, one of whom taires a rule on him to pay his mortgage debt, the purchaser is entitled to have all these mortgagees called in to adjust and settle their respective claims and the precedence of them.
    Appeal from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans. Rogers, J.
    
      De Grey for Plaintiff. Elliott for Defendant Appellant.
   Spencer J.,

delivered the opinion on the motion to dismiss, and Egan, J., on the merits, reversing the judgment.