Massey-Harris Harvester Co. v. Moorhead Farmers Elevator Co.

Plaintiff appealed from an order denying its motion for a new trial.

One Brown was indebted to plaintiff. On January 22, 1926, he gave plaintiff a renewal note secured by a chattel mortgage on the crops to be grown in 1926 upon a certain quarter section of land OAvned by defendant Norman Land Company. BroAvn did not live on the land and did not then have any lease for the season of 1926. When he gave the note and chattel mortgage he told plaintiff that he had no lease and that if he got one the crops Avould have to stand as security for rent and seed and Avhatever Avas left could stand as…