First National Bank v. Lewis

J. H. Rottenberry borrowed a sum. of money from the Bank of Hartford and executed a note therefor on April 19, 1920, with M. B. Lewis and J. W. Smedley as indorsers. To hold the indorsers or sureties harmless a mortgage was taken on certain live stock and a crop of cotton. This mortgage, which was dated April 19, 1920, was left with the bank to be indorsed and filed with the clerk and recorder, but was not indorsed and filed until May 26, 1920.

On May 5, 1920, the same mortgagor, under the name of J. P. Rodenbery, executed a second mortgage to J. L. Presson, on the same property, and on that…