Corder v. G. B. Sprouse & Co.

This is a suit to recover the value of a tobacco crop on which the complainant had a chattel mortgage. The original bill sought to recover the proceeds of the mortgagor’s wheat, corn, and tobacco crops, but the only question before this court is as to the tobacco crop.

The chancellor found that TI. J. Johnson owed F. IT. Corder, on May 28, 1928, $150; that Johnson executed a mortgage to secure said note, the mortgage stating that it was on his interest in a crop of corn, wheat, and tobacco, then growing or to be planted, on the land of J. H. Owen in the Seventh civil district of Sumner county;…