Fletcher v. Dunn

This action was brought by the appellee under the provisions of §§ 6890, 6897, 6898 of Crawford & Moses’ Digest to subject cotton raised by a tenant in the hands of his mortgagee to the payment of rent and advances made to the tenant of farm animals and implements, necessary for the making of a crop upon the plantation of appellee in Poinsett County, Arkansas. The appellants, as merchants, had advanced supplies to the tenant to aid in the making of his crop, and had taken a mortgage on the crop and certain chattels to secure the same. They defended on the ground that there had been a waiver…