Valleyfield Gin Co. v. Robinson

This appeal involves a determination of the rights in the proceeds of certain cotton grown in Dunklin County, Missouri, and sold in Mississippi County, Arkansas, as between three chattel mortgagees, one of whom also claims a landlord’s lien for advances.

Suit was filed in the Mississippi Chancery Court by the Caruthersville Production Credit Association against the Valleyfield Gin Company and Jack Finley Robinson, doing business as Dixie Gin Company, for the alleged conversion of cotton grown in 1947 on 80 acres of land in Dunklin County, Missouri, by one Cecil Crenshaw, on which it was…