Beers v. W. P. Devereux Co.

Plaintiff brought this action to foreclose a chattel mortgage on a crop, given to secure the payment of a promissory note, and for damages for the conversion of the mortgaged property.

The crop consisted of wheat raised on land owned by defendant Long and which she had mortgaged in 1922 to intervener, the Edgar State Bank. The real estate mortgage is the same one involved in Long v. Devereux Co. et al., ante, p. 198, 286 Pac. 402. The chattel mortgage on the crop was executed by defendant Long to plaintiff on May 15, 1926, and filed for record on August 13, 1926. During the year 1926 the land…