Court Opinion

ID: 7188142
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:54:23.455971+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:16:07.472913
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Taliaeerro, J.
The plaintiff sues the' parish of Pointe Coupée to recover the amount of four written obligations, styled “ Certificates of Indebtedness.” Three of these instruments, each for one thousand dollars, are dated March 2, 1860, and signed by the auditor of parish accounts, and indorsed by the holder of the claim against the parish. They are numbered, respectively, 618, 619 and 620, and read as follows:
“ Pointe Coupée. This is to certify that the parish of Pointe Coupée owes to Mr. Richard Ilanahan, or order, one thousand dollars, with interest at the rate of eight per cent, per annum from this date, for building the Colomb levee.
“Pointe Coupée, March 2, 1860.
(Signed) “JOHN YOIST,
“Auditor of Parish Accounts.
“Indorsed: Richard Hanaiian.”
The other, act, dated June 23, 1863, is drawn in the same manner for the sum of five hundred dollars, with like interest from date, and *77expresses the consideration to be a balance due the district surveyor. The main grounds of defense are:
First — Prescription.
Second — That no provision was made at the time the indebtedness was created to discharge it.
The plaintiff obtained judgment in the lower court, and the defendant appeals. ■
We think the certificate sued upon comes within the large class of instruments contemplated by the article 3505 of the Civil ■ Code, and the prescription of five years, plead in defense, must prevail.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment of the District Court be annulled, avoided apd reversed It is further ordered that there be judgment in favor of the defendant and appellant, and that the plaintiff pay costs in both courts.
Rehearing refused.