BANK OF BENTON v. KEITH HOWARD REAL ESTATE, INC.

No. 86-4335.

819 F.2d 98 (1987)

BANK OF BENTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KEITH HOWARD REAL ESTATE, INC. and Daniel Keith Howard, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 11, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Touchstone, Touchstone & Wilson, Shreveport, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

J. Michael Cutshaw, Baton Rouge, La., for amicus curiae.

John A. Broadwell, Dosite H. Perkins, Jr., Asst. U.S. Attys., Joseph S. Cage, Jr., U.S. Atty., Shreveport, La., for U.S.

J. Ransdell Keene, Evans, Feist, Auer & Keene, Shreveport, La., for Keith Howard Real Estate and Keith Howard.

Hal V. Lyons, Shreveport, La., for all other defendants-appellees.

Before BROWN, REAVLEY and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.


REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

The Bank of Benton appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the United States and denying a declaratory judgment that the bank has a mortgage on certain property. The bank claims that the district court misinterpreted Louisiana law. We affirm.

On November 22, 1983, Howard Real Estate Company sold seventeen lots in Grawood Estates, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, to Technology...

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