Lingerfelt v. Gibson

Me,. Chief Justice Geeen

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a contest over a growing crop between the purchaser of land sold under a mortgage and the tenant of the mortgagor. The tenant rented the land on February 5, 1929, for a period of one year, the same being a farm containing over five hundred acres, and planted it in corn. The consideration of the lease was $2500, for which the tenant executed his five notes of $500' each. At the time the bill was filed one of the notes had been paid and the bill averred that the others had come into the hands of innocent purchasers. The…