Deering Harvester Co. v. C. L. Smith Farm Land Development Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Winston Over-ton, Judge. Suit by the Deering Harvester Company against the C. L. Smith Farm Land Development Company on notes and to enforce a vendor’s privilege and mortgage. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
Plaintiff, through a trustee, sold to Waddell, all on credit, 42,512 acres of marsh land for as many dollars, and Waddell executed for this purchase price his two notes, one for $25,000, due in one day, and the other for $17,512, due in one year, secured by vendor’s privilege and mortgage on the property. On the same day, to wit, November 30, 1912, Waddell sold the property to defendant for $255,072. Defendant paid $94,233 cash, and for the balance assumed the payment of the two Waddell notes, and executed its own notes to its own order and by itself indorsed in blank, and identified by the…
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