Adams v. Houston Nat. Bank

This suit was instituted by James' R. Adams against Charles D. Spencer for debt and to foreclose certain chattel mortgages upon his rice crop for the year 1920, and against the Houston National Bank, the Old River Company, and the Industrial Rice Mill, Inc., for conversion of the property covered by the chattel mortgages. There was a jury impaneled, but after the evidence was all in, the court withdrew the case from the jury and rendered judgment for the plaintiff against the defendants Spencer, Houston National Bank, and Old River Company, jointly and severally, for the sum of $2,528.98,…