Gorman Co. v. Jones

Ned Soloman was a tenant on the farm of appellee, Abe C. Jones, for the years 1919 and 1920, under an agreement to pay such landlord as rental one-third of the corn and one-fourth of the cotton raised on the premises. In the spring of 1920 the landlord furnished the tenant two mules and supplies to enable him to make a crop on the rented premises for that year. On the 5th day of October, 1920, Soloman executed to appellant, W. O. Gorman, trading as the Gorman Company, a merchant in the vicinity, a chattel mortgage on the 1920 crop, the mules in question, and other property not involved…