Farmers & Merchants Bank v. Small

The respondents Small and wife were the lessees of a large tract of farm land in Eastern Washington. They desired to summer fallow some 500 acres thereof during the year 1921, and borrowed certain sums of money from the appellant to be used, and which for the most part were used, in that connection. To secure this indebtedness, Small and wife gave to the appellant a chattel mortgage covering, in addition to some farm implements, “all interest of the mortgagor in and to the summer fallow to be prepared by the mortgagor during the year 1921,” on certain particularly described lands in Columbia…