State Bank of Loretto v. Dixon

Streissguth, Justice.

Plaintiff brought this statutory action of claim and delivery to obtain possession, for the purpose of a chattel mortgage' fore closure, of certain farm machinery, livestock, and crops mortgaged to it by one Robert J. Dixon (hereinafter called the tenant). Margaret Gallagher, as executrix of the last will and testament of one Robert Dixon (hereinafter called the testator), an uncle of Robert J. Dixon and the owner of the real estate upon which the crops were growing, answered claiming ownership of the crops and counterclaimed for the value thereof and for the reasonable…