Case Name: HEBERT'S HEIRS vs. BABIN & AL.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1828-04
Citations: 6 Mart. (n.s.) 614
Docket Number: 
Parties: HEBERT’S HEIRS vs. BABIN & AL.
Judges: 
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 6
Pages: 614–615

Head Matter:
EASTERN DISTRICT,
APRIL TERM, 1828.
HEBERT’S HEIRS vs. BABIN & AL.
Appeal from the court of the second district.
Privileges on property seized do not form a good ^spending thje sale.

Opinion:
Porter, J.
delivered the opinion of the court. The defendant obtained judgment a* gainst one Joseph Dugat, and proceeded to oh-tain satisfaction of it, by issuing an execution against his property. The plaintiffs applied for and obtained an injunction, on the groünd that they had a higher privilege on the proper-, ty than that of the defendants. The district court, after hearing the parties, was of opinion the plaintiffs had no right to prevent the sale, even admitting the facts set up by them to be true $ that their remedy was on the proceeds.'— It therefore dissolved the injunction. The plaintiffs appealed.
We think the court below did not err. The plaintiffs have no right to the property. The judgment recovered by them against their stepfather for the price of the objects bought by him at the sale of their father's estate, is a ratification of the sale, and covers any irregularities the proceedings may present. They cannot, therefore, claim as owners. Théir right is one of privilege; and as the law requires that property put up at auction by asheriff, shall be sold, subject to all the privileges and hy-pothecations with which it is burthened, their position cannot, in any respect, be altered by the sale, and, consequently, they have no authority to prevent it. This property may sell for more than will satisfy the plaintiff's demand, and the defendants have, consequently, a right, even admitting their adversary's privilege is of a superior nature, to cause the thing subject to it tobe sold, in order that they may get theo-verplus. Code of Prac. 679, 683.
The judgment of the district court is therefore affirmed, with costs. , -