Case Name: HOMER W. WOODBURY v. ARCHIE B. GRAVES
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1917-04-30
Citations: 14 Teiss. 314
Docket Number: No. 7002
Parties: HOMER W. WOODBURY v. ARCHIE B. GRAVES.
Judges: 
Reporter: Decisions, Court of Appeal, parish of Orleans (Teissier)
Volume: 14
Pages: 314–315

Head Matter:
No. 7002.
HOMER W. WOODBURY v. ARCHIE B. GRAVES.
Syllabus.
1. An act under private signature, . duly acknowledged before a notary and two witnesses, is an authentic act.
2. The only confession of judgment necessary to authorize executory process is the acknowledgment of the debt in an authentic act.
Appeal from the 28th Judicial District Court, No. 2301.
Affirmed.
Sol Weis, for plaintiff and appellee.
Conrad A. Buchler, for defendant and appellant.

Opinion:
His Honor,
JOHN ST. PAUL,
rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:
This is an appeal from an order directing executory process to issue against certain property of the defendant. .
Appellant complains that the. mortgage on which the order issued is not authentic in form, and secondly, that it does not import a confession of judgment.
The act is in form private, but all the parties thereto have duly acknowledged it before a notary and two witnesses. It is therefore authentic. C. C., 2234-2242.
Opinion and decree April 30th, 1917.
Rehearing refused, May 28, 1917.
In this act the mortgagor recognizes and acknowledges the debt for which the mortgage was given. This is the only confession of judgment necessary to authorize the issuance of executory process. C. P., 733; Dejean v. Hebert, 31 An., 729; Richardson v. McDonald, 139 La., 655.
The judgment appealed from is therefore affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.