Citizens Bank v. J. L. Pilcher & Sons Inc.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Before the act approved July 15, 1924 (Ga. L. 1924, p. 125; Code, § 67-1101) there could be no mortgage on a crop until it was planted. Dawson National Bank v. Bank of Dawson, 42 Ga. App. 300, 302 (155 S. E. 791). However, this Code section provides as follows: “A mortgage given to secure advances for the purpose of making and gathering crops shall embrace and cover crops of such mortgagor before the same are planted or growing, when it is so stipulated therein, within the limit of the calendar year such crops may be planted.” The Code, § 67-1105,…