KAPLAN v. UNIVERSITY LAKE CORP.

No. 64328.

381 So.2d 385 (1979)

Sol KAPLAN et al. v. UNIVERSITY LAKE CORPORATION et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

On Rehearing March 3, 1980.

Rehearing Denied April 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd J. Falcon, Jr., Avant, Wall, Thomas, Riche & Falcon, Baton Rouge, William P. Stahl, Reynolds, Nelson, Theriot & Stahl, New Orleans, for defendant-applicant.

Ashton L. Stewart, Stewart & Preis, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-respondent.


DENNIS, Justice.

In this suit to enforce a mortgage on immovable property, both the trial and intermediate appellate courts rendered judgment for the plaintiff mortgage-holder, Kaplan, rejecting a plea of prescription filed by the defendant landowner, Guaranty Savings Assurance Company. We reverse, holding that the mortgage is unenforceable. Prescription on the debt underlying the mortgage was not interrupted by a pledge of contracts to sell securing the debt, as...

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