Court Opinion

ID: 9676935
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 05:38:42.21499+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:52.443126
License: Public Domain

SUMMERS, Justice
(dissenting).
The issue here is whether plaintiffs, who seek to avail themselves of executory process, can establish their ownership of the notes in question by authentic evidence. The notes are described in the mortgage as payable to “ourselves” without any mention that they have been endorsed by the makers. *133Nevertheless, the majority opinion predicates its holding on the proposition that plaintiffs are the original and only holders and owners of the notes in controversy, being of the opinion that the omission of authentic evidence of the endorsement of the note did not deprive plaintiffs of their rights to issuance of executory process and writs of seizure and sale, stating that under the facts of this case it was sufficient that the acts of mortgage contained a confession of judgment and a recital of the delivery of the notes to plaintiffs as holders and owners.
It is my opinion that this holding is erroneous for there is no authentic evidence of the delivery of the notes in question to the plaintiffs named here (Dr. LiRocchi and Sam Culotta) as original holders and owners.
The only documents presented to support the issuance of executory process were the mortgages and notes. Nowhere are plaintiffs named therein. Although plaintiffs may be the holders in due course of the notes in question and entitled to enforce their payment by ordinary process, there is no authentic evidence of their status and, inasmuch as their status as owners of the notes requires resort to evidence dehors the authentic acts of mortgage and notes as described therein, they cannot avail themselves of executory process.
I respectfully dissent