Alston v. French & Morton

French & Morton foreclosed a mortgage in Stewart county court, and the mortgage fi. fa. was levied on the crops of one Warren, which had been raised in the year 1906. Warren was the tenant of N. C. Alston and Alston foreclosed a landlord’s lien for supplies furnished his tenant to aid in making the crop. The crop was sold under the mortgage fi. fa., by the sheriff of Stewart county, and Alston claimed that the funds raised from the sale should be first applied to the pajunent of his lien. Thereupon French & Morton ruled the sheriff, who, in his answer, set up that several fi. fas. had claimed…