Case Name: Southern Mutual Insurance Company vs. Mrs. Mary A. Pike et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1881-05
Citations: 33 La. Ann. 823
Docket Number: No. 7635
Parties: Southern Mutual Insurance Company vs. Mrs. Mary A. Pike et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 33
Pages: 823–827

Head Matter:
No. 7635.
Southern Mutual Insurance Company vs. Mrs. Mary A. Pike et al.
An issue about the legal stains of one of the parties, which requires the introduction of evidence to prove the facts alleged, cannot he raised in this Court. '
Unless the sheriff, in offering property for sale at public auction, announces, after reading the mortgage certificate, that the purchaser shall have the right to retain the amount of the anterior mortgages and piivheges, there can he no valid adjudication.
But the nullity is susceptible oi ratification.
APPEAL from the Fifth District Court for the parish of Orleans. Rogers, J.
8. P. Greves and Merrick, Race & Foster, and Geo. L. Bright and Barrow & Pope, for Plaintiff and Appellee.
Herron & Bird and Richardson & Magruder for Defendants and Appellants.
Chas. 8. Rice for-Thos. W. Bothick, Appellant.

Opinion:
On Motion to Rescind.
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Bermudez, C. J.
Upon a verified averment of the extinction of the corporation plaintiff and of the judicial appointment of a liquidator of its affairs, an order was obtained substituting him in these proceedings.
Dissatisfied with this order, the defendants have taken a rule to rescind it.
They set forth allegations, to support which it would be necessary to hear proof, which cannot be received here. 32 An. 663; 2 An. 430.
Besides, the appellants have no authority to assail collaterally the appointment of the liquidator, which must be held as validly made until shown to have been legally vacated. 15 An. 27; 23 An. 17; 24 An. 253.
The rule is denied.