Case ID: la-ann_5/html/0133-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Eustis, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Benite Marini v. Victor Mourain.
    A sale under execution of all the surplus funds in the hands of a certain person after the payment of a prior attachment, has no validity for want of a sufficient description, and a monition to'confirm such a sale will he dismissed.
    APPEAL from !the District Court of Point Coupée. Farrar, J. In this case A. Eecoux applied for a monition to confirm the title acquired by him at a constable’s sale.
    
      T. J. Cooley, for appellant. A. Provosty, for appellee.
   The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of the Ninth District, sitting in the parish of Point Coupée, by which a sale of certain credits, made by a constable, under a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace, was homologated and confirmed. The appeal is taken by the debtor. The description of the objects sold is thus given in the officers return: all the surplus funds, credits, notes and claims , in the hands of P. J. Mourain, after the claims of the Congregation of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis, v. Victor Mourain, No. 40, and belonging to Victor Mourain, and which were attached on the 26th of October 1846, at the suit of the Congregation of the Roman Catholic Church v. Victor Mourain, No. 40.

Without determining the question as to the power of justices of the peace to confirm sales made under their authority, by virtue of the monition acts, or the other questions which this case obviously presents, it is sufficient to state that, under the repeated decisions of this court, a sale by judicial authority under such a description as this, has no validity.

It is therefore decreed that the judgment appealed from be reversed, and the proceedings of Hypolite Eecoux, for a monition, be dismissed, with costs in both courts.