Exchange State Bank v. Farmers State Bank

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for the conversion of a crop of wheat in which plaintiff and defendant were interested as mortgagees.

Early in 1921 one Hugo Boe was the owner'of a wheat crop growing on seventy-seven acres of Phillips county land and was also the owner of a one-third interest in a wheat crop growing on sixty acres on an adjoining tract of land. Boe gave three successive chattel mortgages on this wheat crop, viz.:

First, lien, to Gray & Stagg for ..................................... $100.00

Second, lien to defendant…