Handley v. McDonald & Ely Gin Co.

J. J. Handley, appellant and plaintiff below, sued G. H. McDonald, J. W. McDonald, W. P. Ely, and Will Stit, composing a copartnership styled McDonald & Ely Gin Company, in Dawson county, Tex., for conversion of certain cotton purchased by them from Clarence Palmer and upon which plaintiff alleged that he had a valid chattel mortgage duly registered at the time of such purchase and conversion.

A. C. Woodward, Palmer’s landlord, intervened, setting up a landlord’s lien on the cotton for supplies furnished Palmer to enable him to cultivate and harvest the crop, and sought judgment for conversion.