Evangeline Bank & Trust Co. v. Deville

STOKER, Judge.

This is an action by the holder of a crop pledge and privilege against the crop grower and a purchaser of a portion of the pledged crop. The primary issue in the case is whether the holder of the crop pledge gave proper notice to the purchaser where the crop pledge was given by the grower in the name of Boward Deville, and was recorded as such, although the purchaser dealt with the grower as, and knew him only as, Frank Deville.

Plaintiff-appellee, Evangeline Bank and Trust Company, is the crop pledge holder. It sued Frank Boward Deville and his wife and B. F. Trappey’s Sons,…