Frank H. Buck Co. v. Buck

Appellant, California Fruit Exchange, a corporation, is the mortgagee of a recorded crop mortgage executed to it by respondent F. M. Buck. It claims priority of right and lien by virtue of this crop mortgage and by virtue of an unrecorded crop contract also executed to it by F. M. Buck, over a subsequent chattel mortgage executed by F. M. Buck to respondent Frank H. Buck Company, a corporation. The action was commenced by the Frank H. Buck Company to foreclose its chattel mortgage for the sum of fifteen thousand dollars and for a decree establishing its priority of right over the California…