Alliance Trust Co. v. Gueydan Bank

As the defendant’s brief correctly states, “This is a suit sounding in damages.”

The petition contains many allegations-, makes numerous charges, and sets forth many claims, of which little is said in the evidence and nothing in brief or in argument. We will confine ourselves to those matters which appear to us to afford plaintiff some ground for complaint.

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Plaintiff loaned one Onile Cormier some $19,800 (thé unpaid balance), secured by mortgage (duly recorded) upon a plantation, to-giether With the Improvements thereon and all appurtenances thereunto belonging. The mortgage not having been…