Belser v. Youngblood & Sons
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before the Hon. John R. Tyson. This was an action brought by the appellees, Young-blood & Sons, against the' appellant, Belser, for the alleged conversion of three bales of cotton, upon which the plaintiffs claimed to have a mortgage.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before the Hon. John R. Tyson. This was an action brought by the appellees, Young-blood & Sons, against the' appellant, Belser, for the alleged conversion of three bales of cotton, upon which the plaintiffs claimed to have a mortgage. The plaintiffs’ evidence tended to show, and it was undisputed, that they held a mortgage on crops to be raised by one Henry Mills, for the year 1892 ; that said Mills owned no lands, but rented from others ; that the defendant bought three bales of cotton from said Mills which were raised by him in the year 1892.…
1Opinion of the CourtHabalson, J.
Touching the cotton sold to defendant by the mortgagor, grown on Mrs. Lovejoy’s and Mrs. Strickland’s places, the evidence is conclusive that they had alien on the bale of cotton set apart to them, to the extent of their respective claims for rent — 400 pounds to the one, and 100 pounds to the other; that the mortgagor, Mills, notified- Mrs. Lovejoy, that her rent cotton was ginned, packed and at the gin house for her, and in reply, she sent him word, that he could take it and sell it and bring her her part of the money, for 400 pounds of the cotton; that Mrs. Strickland also authorized said-…
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