Simmesport State Bank v. Couvillon

TATE, Judge.

The defendant bank appealed from a judgment decreeing that a 1959 chattel mortgage held by it was subordinate, because of certain deficiencies, to a 1960 chattel mortgage on the same equipment held by the plaintiff bank. The plaintiff now moves to dismiss the appeal as moot.

The plaintiff bank is a judgment creditor which seized certain tractors and other equipment upon which it held a 1960 chattel mortgage recognized as valid by the 1963 judgment under which it seized. The present mandamus proceedings were brought by it against the Clerk of Court and the Cottonport Bank, ordering…