Parsons v. American Agricultural Chemical Co.

This case turns upon the question whether a chattel mortgage given by the plaintiff’s intestate to The American Agricultural Chemical Company upon a crop of tobacco is valid against the plaintiff administrator. The mortgage was given on April 1, 1930; and was duly recorded under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 255, § 1. Claflin v. Carpenter, 4 Met. 580. It purported to cover the 1930 crop about to be grown by the plaintiff’s intestate upon land owned or operated by him. The plaintiff contends that the mortgage does not cover the tobacco because when the mortgage was given the tobacco was not planted, and…