Crowl v. Ross

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

The facts out of which this cause grew are substantially as follows:

W. X. Ross was in the mercantile business, and R. H. Spoon and E. W. Oglesby, desiring to obtain credit at Ross’s store, made and delivered to him their promissory note in the sum of $250, with the understanding that they should obtain merchandise from time to time until the total amount reached the value of $250, and to secure the payment of the note they executed their chattel mortgage covering — •

“Thirty acres of cotton located on W. J. McCauley’s farm,…