Citizens' Bank v. Fluker
Citizens' Bank v. Fluker
Opinion of the Court
The litigation involved in this case was to ,spme ■extent before this court at its last term at Monroe, July, 1870. 22 An. 482. Tho question now to he determined — tlie priority of mortgage light as between the bank and Mrs. Rind — presents itself in this ease. Tho tacit mortgage claimed by the opponent against the “Arpen” tract of land arose, as she avers, from a large indebtedness to her by her father, Nicholas' D. Rind, who, in his capacity of natural tutor, received on her account from the executors of Thomas H. Martin a sum exceeding $12,000. Her tutor’s receipts, given at various times for -1 lie funds so received, wore recorded in the mortgage office of the parish of Ouachita in 1869, to preserve her tacit mortgage.
This “ Arpón ” tract of land, with a number of slaves, was mortgaged in 1838 to the Citizens’ Bank by S. W. Downs and James H. Brigham, partners in the business of planting. By this act of mortgage Downs and Brigham became stockholders in tho bank, each for twenty-five shares of the capital stock of the company, and were thereby entitled to wbat are called loans. Brigham and Downs dissolved partnership -in September, 1838, and by tlie act of partition Brigbam became owner -of the property, assuming- to pay the mortgage to the bank, so far as it secured bis seventy-five shares of stock. In April, 1839, Brigbam sold "tho property to Rind, tlie father of the opponent, and Rind assumed to pay tlie loan of Brigbam, obtained from tlie bank. Tlie deed was recorded in the parish of Ouachita on the eighteenth of May, 1839. Rind failing to make payment, the bank foreclosed its mortgage on the ■property, which was sold at sheriff’s sale on the sixth of August, 1B42. The sheriff’s return shows that lie seized and sold the land, slaves, farming utensils and seventy-five shares of tlie capital stock of tlie ■Citizens’ Bank, and that the property was purchased by W. W. Farmer,
Claiming to have against the “Arpen” tract of land seized by the hank, a tacit mortgage of superior rank to that of the bank, the opponent comes forward and demands to be paid out of tho proceeds of sale of the mortgaged property the amount of her claims so secured by taeit mortgage alleged to be of anterior date to the hank’s mortgage
Tho bank, in answer to this opposition, denies that the opponent has. auy mortgage on the property seized, and if she has, it is of subsequent, date and inferior rank to the mortgage of the bank.
There was judgment in favor of the third opponent, ordering that, there he paid over to her the sum of $3500 of the proceeds of sale of the “ Arpen” tract. From this judgment the bank has appealed.
We think the judgment correct. The proceeds of sale of the property in 1842 satisfied the mortgage given by Brigham to secure the loan to him on his stock, and left an overplus of $2453 05. It is shown that, the tacit mortgage of the third opponent dates and takes rank for much the largest part of the tutor’s indebtedness from the year 1839; consequently, her mortgage being next in' rank to that of the bank for the. stock loan to Brigham, she is entitled to this sum remaining after the stock loan was paid. True it is the property was sold subject to what, is called the stock mortgage. By the organization of the hank and the principles upon which it was chartered, a subsisting mortgage was to continue to secure indebtedness to the bank, and also to secure the. bonds issued by the State in aid of the bank.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment of the district court be affirmed, with costs.
Rehearing refused.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Citizens' Bank of Louisiana v. Isabella A. Fluker, Administratrix.—Third Opposition of L. M. B. Rind and Husband
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- Published