Ross v. Schultz

(after stating the facts as above).

In view of the pleadings and facts found by the court, it is believed that the appellants’ contention should be sustained, and that the court erred in holding the defendants liable in conversion. The plaintiff Schultz pleaded in his petition that he had an existing chattel mortgage upon “the first four bales of cotton and cotton seed planted, grown, and gath ered by B. Harlan and wife on tbe farm of C. F. Gilstrap, or any other land cultivated by them during tbe year 1915, each bale of said cotton to weigh not less than five hundred pounds lint and be of…