Butler Mercantile Co. v. Cruise

Anderson, J.,

delivered tbe opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the chancery court of Pike county adjudging that the mortgage given by appellee, C. L. Cruise, to the Hyman Mercantile Company, on crops produced by him and his tenants during the year 1931, for advances made to him by the mercantile company during that year, was superior to a mortgage executed by him in the early part of 1930 in favor of appellant on the same crops but for advances made to produce the crops of the previous year.

The cause originated in a replevin suit in a justice of the peace court. Six bales…