Farmers' Cotton Finance Corp. v. Green

OPINION OF THE COURT

SIMMS, J.

The plaintiff, Farmers’ Cotton Finance Corporation, as mortgagee of two crops of cotton and other chattels, brought suit in replevin against the mortgagor, alleging that its indebtedness was past due and unpaid, and that the defendant had unlawfully disposed of certain cotton covered by the mortgages, and in other respects had breached their conditions. The defendant, by way of answer and counterclaim, denied the allegations of the complaint in toto and further set up, as a defense to replevin of the cotton on the so-called Renn place, the assertion that Renn had…