Doucet v. Dugas

OTT, Judge.

The plaintiff claims to be the owner of a note for $348.94, dated February 26, 1930, signed by the defendants, due' five years from date, bearing 8 per cent, per annum interest from date, secured by a special mortgage on property situated in St. Martin parish. He alleges that the note was given for money loaned by him to defendants, and that he deposited said note in a cracker can in his store at Catahoula Lake, in which can he kept his papers; that in July, 1934, his son, Ignace Doucet, found that the note was missing from said receptacle, and on investigating the mortgage records…