Whittleshoffer v. Strauss & Steinhart

— The action was brought by the appellees, before a justice of the peace, to recover for the conversion of a bale of cotton; and was tried in the Circuit Court on appeal by defendants from the judgment of the justice. The plaintiffs claimed under a mortgage made by B. J. Stripling, February 4th, 1885, which embraced the crops to be grown during the current year. The defendants requested the court to charge the jury, if the mortgage under which plaintiffs claimed was made on an unplanted crop, and the cotton in controversy was a part of the crop grown, and plaintiffs never had possession of…