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FIRST FINANCIAL BANK, F.S.B. v. JOHNSON

No. CA-3181.

477 So.2d 1267 (1985)

FIRST FINANCIAL BANK, F.S.B. v. Mary Vaughn, Wife of/and James J. JOHNSON, Dryades Savings & Loan Assoc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dutel & Dutel, Peter S. Thriffiley, Charles J. Nunez, New Orleans, for appellee-First Financial Bank.

D. Michael Dendy, Susan Stagg Robinson, New Orleans, for intervenor-appellant.

Before WILLIAMS and ARMSTRONG, JJ., and PRESTON H. HUFFT, J. Pro Tempore.

PRESTON H. HUFFT, Judge Pro Tempore.

In this contest between conventional mortgagees, the issue is whether a recorded mortgage executed by "James J. Johnson" on real property owned and registered on the public records in the name of "James Johnson" affords sufficient notice of the encumbrance to third parties so as to prime a subsequent mortgage of the same property. Because we conclude that the later mortgagee was entitled to rely upon the name "James Johnson" as...

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