Bank of Houma v. Shaffer

The Revised Civil Code provides as follows:

Article 3217: “The debts which are privileged •on certain movables, are the following:

«1. * * * Debts due for necessary supplies [furnished] to any farm or plantation, * * * on the crops of the year and the pro•ceeds thereof.

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The Chattel Mortgage Act, No. 198, of 1918, p. 372, provides as follows:

“Sec. 4. Every [chattel] mortgage shall be. a lien on the property mortgaged from the time •same is filed for recordation, * * * and said lien shall be superior in rank to any privilege or lien arising subsequently thereto.”

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On February 1, 1920,…