Durden v. Aycock Bros.

The single question presented by this record is whether the lien of a mortgage on a crop, given to secure payment for advances furnished to aid in making and gathering the crop in the year in which the mortgage was given, is inferior to the lien of a mortgage given to another creditor to secure the payment of the debt of a former year, merely because it was not recorded until after the mortgage given to secure the older indebtedness was recorded in the office of the clerk of the superior court.

Generally, as among themselves, the priority of mortgage liens is fixed by the date of the record,…