Interstate Trust & Banking Co. v. Powell Bros. & Sanders
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish of Vernon; Don E. So Relie, Judge. Action by the Interstate Trust & Banking Company against the Powell Brothers & Sanders Company, Limited, and Thomas C. Win-gate, as its receiver. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
The defendant receiver has appealed from an order of seizure and sale sued out by the plaintiff as the holder of a certain note for $25,000, signed “Powell Bros. & Sanders Co., Ltd., by W. II. Powell, Pres’t,” secured by notarial act of mortgage executed in the name of the corporation, by “W. II. Powell, Pres’t.”
The act of mortgage recites that William II. Powell appears in his official capacity and under special authorization of the board of directors of the corporation, “as per authority hereto attached.” We find in the transcript a paper purporting to be a copy of a resolution adopted by…
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