Case ID: la-ann_2/html/0721-01.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

Robin v. Flower.
    Whe're in an hypothecary action against a third possessor of property mólfgáged1 to sccúrethe payment of a note, defendant expressly denies that any amicable demand was made of the original debtors thirty days before suit as required by law, the testimony of a witness that he wont to the residence of the original debtors for the purpose of demanding payment, that he found the house closed and no one there, and that he enquired for, but could not find either of them, is not evidence of due diligence, and cannot excuse the want of amicable demand-. Per Curiam: Nothing shows that the debtors were not at their house the next day, ner that they could not have been found in the neighborhood.
    Appeal from tire Court of Probates of West Feliciana, Weems, J.
    
      Phillips, for the appellant. No counsel appeared for the defendant.
   The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Rost, J.

This is an hypothecary action- against a third- possessor. The petition alleges that payment of the note has been demanded amicably from the original debtors, more than thirty days previous to the institution of the suit. That allegation is expressly denied in the answer.

All the evidence adduced in support of it is the testimony of Stevens, who deposes that he went to the residence of the original debtors, in September, 4840, for the purpose of demanding, payment; that he found the house closed, and no person there; that he made' enquiry for them, but eould not find either of them.

The diligence'used in the search of the original debfofffis insufficient; nothing shows that they were not at their house the next day, or that they could not have been found in the neighborhood at any subsequent time. Nothing is shown which can dispense the plaintiff from making thé amicable demand required by law; and until it is made he cannot maintain his action.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment be reversed, and the plaintiff’s petition dismissed, with costs in both courts.