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MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGIS. SYSTEMS v. BYNUM

No. 2003 CA 1671.

879 So.2d 807 (2004)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. v. Celeste Stewart BYNUM.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 28, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles K. Watts, Baton Rouge, George B. Dean, Jr., Monroe, for Plaintiff/Appellant, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.

Kathleen E. Petersen, Fred Duhe', Assistant Attorneys General, for Intervenor/Appellee, State of Louisiana.

L. Stephen Rastanis, Baton Rouge, for Defendant, Celeste Stewart Bynum.

Before: WHIPPLE, KUHN and MCDONALD, JJ.

WHIPPLE, J.

Plaintiff, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., appeals the judgment of the trial court nullifying a purported transfer of property upon which it had granted a mortgage and holding that the notice of lis pendens filed by the State of Louisiana outranked its mortgage. For the following reasons, we modify and affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On August 20, 2001, the State of Louisiana...

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