Nelson v. Forbes

L. D. Nelson brought this action in the Sebastian Circuit Court against Forbes & Sons to recover twelve bales of cotton which had been mortgaged to him in the State of Oklahoma by one William Bromley. The cotton was brought into Arkansas and sold to Forbes & Sons at Hackett City, Arkansas, by one Z. R. Smith, to whom it had been turned over by Bromley in payment of an alleged rent note upon a farm sold to Bromley by Smith prior to the maturity of the note. Smith had contracted to sell Bromley the land on which the cotton was grown, and, on November 11, 1919, executed a deed to Bromley for the…