Couret v. Conner
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Adams county. Hon. B. W. Cutbeb, Chancellor. Suit by John F. Couret and others, trustees for the stockholders of the Canal Louisana Bank & Trust Company, against L. PI. Connor and others, receivers of the First Natchez Bank. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiffs appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Adams county. Hon. B. W. Cutbeb, Chancellor. Suit by John F. Couret and others, trustees for the stockholders of the Canal Louisana Bank & Trust Company, against L. PI. Connor and others, receivers of the First Natchez Bank. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiffs appeal. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The First Natchez Bank, being the holder of all the notes of the Tensas River Planting Company secured by vendor’s lien on land in Louisana and having assigned or pledged three of them to secure its. own debt could not, with these…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
On August 20, 1913, the First Natchez Bank became the owner of thirty notes executed by the Tensas River Planting Company for ten thousand dollars each, payable at Natchez, Miss., at which place the Natchez Bank was domiciled, secured by a vendor’s lien on lands situated in the state of Louisiana. The Natchez Bank was indebted to the Canal Louisiana Bank & Trust Company of New Orleans, La., in the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, secured by certain promissory notes which the Natchez Bank had indorsed to the Louisiana Bank as collateral. The Natchez Bank desiring to obtain…
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