Cartwright v. Flatt

TIREY, Justice.

H. T. 'Cartwright brought this suit against J. W. Flatt, J. E. Roten and W. E. Henderson. His suit against Flatt was based on the unpaid balance on a promissory note in the principal sum of $1,468.13, executed by Flatt and his wife to him and secured by chattel mortgage on the 1949 cotton crop of Flatt. He sought recovery against Roten and Henderson for conversion of the cotton covered by said chattel mortgage. He did not ask for foreclosure of his mortgage. The court overruled Cartwright’s motion for instructed verdict

The jury in its verdict found substantially (1) that at the…