Buchler v. Fourroux

LAND, Justice.

Plaintiff obtained an order of executory process on March 16, 1938, against defendant, Charles Fourroux, on a note secured by chattel mortgage executed under Act No. 198 of 1918 by defendant on a certain building located on a lot in the Town of Kenner, which had been leased by defendant from A. J. Cristina, the record owner of the lot.

Section 1 of Act No. 198 of 1918 specifically provides that it shall be lawful to mortgage, among the movables therein enumerated, “buildings on leased ground.”

The chattel mortgage was executed on November 16, 1934, and recorded in Chattel Mortgage…