Case Name: Samuel Lawson vs. Z. Bruen
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1880
Citations: 1 Mann. Unrep. Cas. 121
Docket Number: No. 6718
Parties: Samuel Lawson vs. Z. Bruen.
Judges: 
Reporter: Unreported cases heard and determined by the Supreme Court of Louisiana, from January 8, 1877, to April, 1880
Volume: 1
Pages: 121–121

Head Matter:
No. 6718.
Samuel Lawson vs. Z. Bruen.
Upon a motion to dismiss on the allegation that the judgment appealed from was rendered on confession, this court must of necessity test the question whether the answer was a confession.
When a first mortgagee buys the mortgaged property, the price being more than sufficient to pay his mortgage, and there are several mortgages posterior to his, one of whom taires a rule on him to pay his mortgage debt, the purchaser is entitled to have all these mortgagees called in to adjust and settle their respective claims and the precedence of them.
Appeal from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans. Rogers, J.
De Grey for Plaintiff. Elliott for Defendant Appellant.

Opinion:
Spencer J.,
delivered the opinion on the motion to dismiss, and Egan, J., on the merits, reversing the judgment.