Luce v. Moorehead

I. The petition alleges that plaintiff held a landlord’s lien upon certain grown corn upon land leased by her to one Lake, for which the rent remains due and unpaid, and that Lake sold and delivered the corn to defendant Moorehead, which he has converted to his own use. The plaintiff seeks in this action to recover the value of the corn. The defendant alleges in his answer that Lake executed to him a chattel mortgage, under which he acquired the corn in controversy, before the lease upon which plaintiff claims was *499executed; that Lake at that time owned the land upon which the corn was grown,…