Court Opinion

ID: 7188909
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:55:01.611742+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:16:08.336701
License: Public Domain

Howell, J.
Plaintiffs, as third possessors, have enjoined the seizure and sale of certain property in the suit of R. C. Hynson v. R. C. Cummings, pending in the parish of Caddo, on the grounds that the property seized is situated in the parish of Bossier, and the court in Caddo was withotit jurisdiction to grant the order of seizure and sale, and the sheriff of said parish is without authority to execute it. Defendant Hynson avers that the court of Caddo had jurisdiction, both of the person of the defendant and the land seized in the executory proceedings, and the act of mortgage held by him is recorded in said parish and contains the pact de non alienando.
*561Judgment was rendered in favor of defendant, dissolving the injunction, with damages, and plaintiffs appealed.
The land in question is situated on Shreve’s Island, formed, it seems, by a cut off in the Eed river some time anterior to the creation of the parish of Caddo in 1838, and the parish of Bossier in 1843, the dividing-line between which is, by the several acts creating them, the Eed river. The defendant contends that as the Eed river at this point must be ■considered that portion which was then and has always since been navigable, that is, the “cut off,” and not the “old river,” which was not and is not navigable, the Legislature intended that stream as navigated to be the boundary of Caddo, and necessarily embraced and .included the island within its limits or territory; while the plaintiffs urges the contrary, and claim to be supported by the established fact that the parish of Bossier has exercised jurisdiction over the said island, and has annually collected the parish taxes assessed upon the property thereon.
We do not deem it necessary or proper in this proceeding to attempt to settle the boundary between the two parishes, which are not before us. It is admitted that the acts of sales from several antecedent owners down to plaintiffs’, are recorded in books of conveyances in the recorder’s office of Caddo parish, and we are of opinion that, as to the parties to those acts at leaát, no insuperable objection can be urged to the jurisdiction of the court in Caddo to grant, and the authority to the sheriff to execute the order of seizure and sale against the said property, when, as in this case, the defendant in said proceeding- is a resident of that parish, and it is doubtful in which parish the land is situated. The parties, by’recording their titles in that parish only, may be considered as believing or treating the property to be within its limits, and we cas see nothing in the circumstances which would invalidate the executory proceedings obtained in tins instance.
It has been held that judgments or mortgages recorded in the parish where the lands were supposed to be situated, were not affected by the subsequent discovery, made iu running the boundary line, that they were in tire adjoining- parish, as the jurisdiction exerpised over the locus in quo is the result of a common error, which can not prejudice the rights acquired by mortgage creditors during- its continuance.
Applying- this principle here, if it should be found that the jurisdiction of Caddo parish, implied and recognized by the parties to the various sales in recording their titles and mortgages there, be proved to be an error, the said mortgage and property rights will not be prejudiced. And, besides, we can not see how the plaintiffs will be injured by the sale they injoin solely on this ground. They acquired no greater rights than their vendor, whose purchase was subject to the *562pact de non alienando, ana therefore if he passed a title at all to them,x it was subject under the above principle to the mortgage resting on it, and as the mortgageor resided in Caddo, the writ could be directed to tire sheriff of Bossier and be by him executed, if the land be really in the latter parish.
Judgment affirmed.