Purity Feed Mills Co. v. Moore

Plaintiff sequestered 468 sacks of rice, property of defendant, and claimed a privilege as furnisher of supplies for making the crop. The Bank of Acadia intervened, also asserting a privilege as the furnisher of money for said crop, and, in addition thereto, superior privileges as pledgee of certain warehouse receipts covering 287 sacks and a chattel mortgage upon the remaining 181 sacks of said rice.

The district court recognized the privileges of plaintiff and intervener, but held the latter’s superior to that of the former in virtue of the chattel mortgage and warehouse receipts. The Court…