Case Name: John Frank Pargoud vs. Mrs. Sarah Richardson
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1878-07
Citations: 30 La. 1286
Docket Number: No. 434
Parties: John Frank Pargoud vs. Mrs. Sarah Richardson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 30
Pages: 1286–1290

Head Matter:
No. 434.
John Frank Pargoud vs. Mrs. Sarah Richardson.
This court will not order the production oí an original act, when it is not necessary to the decision of the case.
Where a defendant who has enjoined an order of seizure and sale appeals from the-decree rendered in the injunction suit, he is not thereby estopped from also-appealing from the order of seizure and sale, when it appears that the grounds set up in the injunction suit are not the same as those presented in the appeal from the order.
It is not necessary that any United States internal revenue stamps should be affixed' to a note, or a mortgage, in order to make it competent evidence in our State-courts.
An order of seizure and sale may issue on a note and mortgage when neither has any United States internal revenue stamps on it. Neither the allegation nor proof of a previous demand for payment, or presentment at a particular place is necessary to obtain executory process, although the note is payable at such a place, when the note is secured by a mortgage importing a confession of judgment.
APPEAL from the Fourteenth Judicial District Court, parish of Ouachita. Ray, J.
8. D. MoEnery and Cobb & Qunby for plaintiff and appellee.
W. W. Farmer for defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
On Motion.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Manning, C. J.
The appellee moves for an order to the Recorder of Ouachita parish, commanding him to send up the original Act of Mortgage, a certified copy of which was produced before the judge of the-lower court as part of the evidence upon which he granted the order of seizure and sale. The object of the motion, as disclosed in it, is to enable this .court to ascertain from personal inspection of the Act, that it has now affixed to it all the United States internal revenue stamps that the Act of Congress requires.
The motion is resisted on the ground that, whatever quantity or amount of revenue stamps may be now upon the Act, there were not enough of them upon it at the time the order of seizure and sale was made to give it validity, and that we can only consider its then condition.
The motion is based on' art. 917 of the Code of Practice, which empowers this court to direct orders to public officers to produce before it original papers, when they may be necessary to the decision of a pending cause.
We do not think the inspection of the paper in question is necessary to the decision of this cause, and we should do a vain and useless act in ordering its production before us, and therefore
The motion is denied.