Bank of Cusseta v. Ellaville Guano Co.

There can be no mortgage of a crop until it is planted. Redd v. Burrus, 58 Ga. 574; Hall v. State, 2 Ga. App. 739 (59 S. E. 26). And while, under the provisions of § 3349 of the Civil Code, the lien of a mortgage on crops given to secure the payment of debts for money borrowed to aid in making and gathering such crops is superior to judgments of older date than such mortgage, where the money to secure the payment of which the mortgage is given is furnished in the year in which the crop is grown, the general rule first stated is not altered by the code section referred to; and as the evidence…