United States v. Brabham

WYCHE, District Judge.

This is an action for the alleged conversion by the defendant of certain oats under mortgage to the plaintiff.

The facts are stipulated and are as follows:

“On February 23, 1951, one James Everett Lee, of Beldoc, Allendale County, South Carolina, borrowed $1,500.00 from the Farmers Home Administration, an agency of the United States of America, to finance the planting, cultivating, making, and harvesting of his crops for the year 1951. In order to secure this loan, Lee executed and delivered to the FHA a crop and chattel mortgage covering all crops of whatever description…