Legal Opinion

Overstreet Grain Co. v. Ford

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided June 22, 1914Published

Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; John E. Martineau, Chancellor; 1. The description in the deed of trust, as against a third person, is not sufficiently definite. Kirby’s Dig., § 5407; 6 Cyc. 1022; 52 Ark. 278; 57 Id. 152; 41 Id. 70; 43 Id. 350; 140 N. W. 401; 71 S. W. 713; 66 N. Y. S. 665; 7 Oh. St. 197; 7 Col. 426; 4 Pac. 45; 76 la. 553; 41 N. W. 310; 77 Ga. 365; 37 la. 374; 58 Miss. 126. 2. A bond for costs should have been filed.

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Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; John E. Martineau, Chancellor; 1. The description in the deed of trust, as against a third person, is not sufficiently definite. Kirby’s Dig., § 5407; 6 Cyc. 1022; 52 Ark. 278; 57 Id. 152; 41 Id. 70; 43 Id. 350; 140 N. W. 401; 71 S. W. 713; 66 N. Y. S. 665; 7 Oh. St. 197; 7 Col. 426; 4 Pac. 45; 76 la. 553; 41 N. W. 310; 77 Ga. 365; 37 la. 374; 58 Miss. 126. 2. A bond for costs should have been filed. Kirby’s Dig., § § 959-61. The property was sufficiently described. 39 Ark. 394; 6 Cyc. 1022; note 25; 127 N. C. 508; 55 la. 421; 7 N. W. 675; 108 Mich. 114; 65…

1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.

S. H. Ford, instituted this action in the chancery court against R. P. Wilson and the Overstreet Grain Company to foreclose a mortgage on two mules.

R. P. Wilson borrowed two hundred dollars from ¡S. H. Ford, and on the 23d day of December, lyütí, executed a mortgage to him on two black mules to secure this amount. The property is described in the mortgage as follows:

“The following lands and personal property, situated in the County of Columbia, and ¡State of Arkansas, towit: Two black mules, two and four years old, the same being now in the possession of the party of the first part, R. P.…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Lightle v. CastlemanSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1889

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