Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. v. Wellbrock

(dissenting) : I think that the Act under review in the opinion of Mr. Justice Purdy should be construed as referring to the planting or crop year, and not to the calendar year; consequently that the mortgage recorded in December, 1923, for fertilizers to be used in the crop of potatoes to be prepared for, planted, and harvested during the year 1923-1924, complied with the Statute.

Prior to the passage of the Act of 1891, now Section 5629, Vol. 3, Code of 1922, as is well remembered, it was the common custom for chattel mortgages, in printed forms, to include the crops of several years in…