Case Name: Citizens' Bank of Louisiana vs. Succession of Mrs. C. Cuny and J. B. Clement
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1886-04
Citations: 38 La. Ann. 360
Docket Number: No. 9627
Parties: Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana vs. Succession of Mrs. C. Cuny and J. B. Clement.
Judges: Poclié, J., recuses on the ground of interest.
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 38
Pages: 360–361

Head Matter:
No. 9627.
Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana vs. Succession of Mrs. C. Cuny and J. B. Clement.
■When pi open ty, part- of which is subject to a mortgage, is poUI by tho owner, sratl tbo purchaser, in part payment of the price, assume* payment of llie mortgage debt, tho latter,, as part of the piicc, is seemed by vendoi’s pmiiege on tho whole property sold; but the mortgage remains confined to the part oiiginally subject thereto.
"When in proceeding by executory process to enforce tho mortgage alone, without referenco to tho privilege, an order of seizure and sale issues against tho whole property, it cm»* braces property not covered by the mortgage, and is, therefore, error and the order must, be set aside on appeal.
PPEAL from tlie Twenty-second District Court, Parish of St.. James. Duffel, J.
Henry 0. Miller aud Bérault c& Legendre for Plaintiff and Appellee.. liobt. G. Dugué for Defendants and Appellants.

Opinion:
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
Plaintiff had a mortgage upon a certain tract of land.. A subsequent purchaser subject to the mortgage, sold tho land so mort gaged, with other lands belonging to him aud not included'iu. the mortgage, to a third person, the act reciting:
" This sale is made for $44,461 14, which the said purchaser has paid, as follows:
"1st. By paying in cash $4,188 14;
"2d. By assuming a mortgage in favor of the Citizens'Bank, resting; upon part of the property herein sold, amounting to $5,573;"
And as evidence of said assumption she furnished a note for that sum, paraphed to identify it with the original act of mortgage, which, was delivered to and accepted by the bank.
For the remainder of the price she furnished nine promissory notes,, which were secured by special mortgage and vendor's lien on the whole-property sold.
The act contains not a word showing that the note furnished to tho-Citizens' Bank in evidence of the assumption was secured by any mortgage other than the original one assumed, which bore only on part of the land.
There can he no doubt that the debt to tho Citizens' Bank, being: assumed as part of the price of the whole property, became secured by a vendor's privilege on the whole. This is well settled. Scionneau vs. Waguespact, 32 Ann. 283; DeL'Isle vs. Moss, 33 Ann. 164.
But the privilege is very different from the mortgage. While the--bank's mortgage primes all other claims on the part of the property subject thereto, her privilege on the remaining property is only concurrent with that of the holders of the notes for the balance of the price.
The bank, in this proceeding, obtained an order of seizure and sale-in execution of her mortgage, which is represented as affecting the whole property, and the order directs the seizure and sale of the whole property for the satisfaction of the mortgage. The petition contains no allusion to the vendor's piivilege.
Prom this order the defendants appeal, and inasmuch as the order in execution of the mortgage simply directs the seizure and sale of more property than is covered by the mortgage, the error is apparent and the order must be annulled and set aside.
It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed that the order of seizure and sale appealed from be annulled and set aside, in so far as it orders sale of property not covered by original mortgage, and otherwise affirmed; plaintiff and appellee to pay costs in both courts.
Poclié, J., recuses on the ground of interest.