Barron-Gray Packing Co. v. Tapley

This is a suit by the purchaser of a crop of peaches to determine the ownership of the purchase price thereof, as between the vendors of the land, who specifically reserved a lien for 25 per cent of the unharvested crop of 1944, by the express terms of an executory contract to sell the land, and the subsequent mortgagee of the crop and chattel mortgage, with knowledge of the terms of the contract. The Bank of America filed an answer and cross-complaint. The answer of the vendors to the cross-complaint pleaded the facts of the entire transaction and their claim of lien and ownership of…