Broussard-Labry Inc. v. People's Bank & Trust Co.

The purpose of this suit is to hold defendants liable as purchasers of a farm, for the amount of a crop privilege alleged to have been affecting the crop which had been grown on said farm, although not yet harvested, when defendants bought and took possession thereof.

Plaintiff charges that it made advances to one Lessin Mouton to enable him to plant, cultivate and gather during the year 1925, crops of rice, cotton and corn, on his farm situated in the Parish of Vermilion, as evidenced by two contracts, one on January 29, 1925, and the other of July 29, 1925. That in accordance with its said…