Watkins v. Wyatt

The agreed case shows that the plaintiff agreed to furnish one Houston McCain with supplies, on condition that McCain, who was a farmer, should execute to the plaintiff a mortgage of his cotton crop for the then current year - (1875) as a security for the supplies so furnished. A deed of trust to that effect was accordingly executed in February, 1875, “upon a crop of cotton to be planted and grown upon the land of the said McCain in the year 1875, to secure said Wyatt for supplies furnished and to be furnished to said McCain, to enable him to make said crop.” This deed of trust was duly…