Case Name: Sanders v. Dosson, Curator
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1848-10
Citations: 3 La. Ann. 587
Docket Number: 
Parties: Sanders v. Dosson, Curator.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 587–588

Head Matter:
Sanders v. Dosson, Curator.
A procis-verbal of an adjudication for the price of which the'purchaser executed his notes with mortgage, though not in the form of a notarial act, being a matter of judicial record, is authentic evidence, such as may form the basis of an order of seizure and sale. Nor is it important that it was not signed by the judge as judge of probates; his signature as parish judge was sufficient. As parish judge, he was probate judge and auctioneer, and clothed with authority to adjudicate the property.
As b etween the vendor and vendee it is unimportant whether a mortgage given to secure the price be recorded or not. Any objection on account of its not having .been recorded, could only he raised by a third possessor.
Letters of -curatorship signed ,by the judge .as parish judge and ex officio judge of prohates, accompanied by the bond and oath of office received by that officer, and attested by his signature as parish judge, is sufficient evidence of a valid appointment as curator.
APPEAL from the District Court of Franklin, Curry, J.
Stillman, for the appellant.
Purvis., for the defendant.

Opinion:
The judgment of the court was pronounc ed by
Slidell, J.
The plaintiff obtained an injunction, restraining the execution of an order of seizure and sale ; and, from a judgment dissolving the injunc* tion, has appealed.
The proces-verbal of the parish judge of the adjudication made to Sanders' for which he gave his notes secured by mortgage, upon which the executory process was obtained, is not clothed with the forms of a notarial act; but it is .authentic evidence, being a matter of judicial record (Moore v. Louailler, 2 La. S77), and formed a sufficient basis for the order of seizure and sale. Nor is it important that it was not signed by the judge, expressly in his capacity of judge of probates. As parish judge, he was judge of the court of probates and auctioneer, clothed with authority to adjudicate the property of the succession of Johnson ; and his signature of the procés-verbal as parish judge, is sufficient.
It was unimportant, as between the succession and Sanders, the vendor and vendee, whether the mortgage was duly recorded or not. Such an objection could only be raised by a third possessor.
It is charged in the petition for injunction that, Dobson, the plaintiff in the executory proceedings, was not curator of the succession of Johnson, his pretended appointment having been made by James &• Taliaferro, acting in his capacity as parish judge, in which capacity he had no power to appoint a curator. We are of opinion that a valid appointment was sufficiently established by the letters of curatorship, signed by the judge as parish judge, and ex officio judge of probates, and by the bond and oath of office, received by that officer and attested by his signature as parish judge.
The only other ground alleged in the pelition for injunction is not charged with certainty, and seems to have been abandoned by counsel.
Judgment- affirmed.