J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co. v. Glass & Bryant Mercantile Co.

This is a controversy between successive mortgagees of the same property by the same mortgagor. Each mortgagee is claiming a right, prior to that of the other, to the proceeds of a crop of wheat, the mortgaged property, amounting to $409.99.

The first mortgagee is the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company. It holds two mortgages. On August 21, 1920, it sold certain machinery to the mortgagor, and to secure a part of the purchase price it took a chattel mortgage on that date on the. machinery sold and “two-thirds of all' *536crops grown” on a tract of land described in the mortgage. On September 7,…