Little v. Southern Cotton Oil Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Blease.

This action was commenced in the Court of Common Pleas for Chesterfield County in 1917, the plaintiffs seeking to recover of the defendant the sum of $1,000.00, the value of certain cotton seed, alleged to have been converted by the defendant. Plaintiffs claimed that the cotton seed was incumbered by a duly recorded crop mortgage in their favor, executed by one H. E. Braswell in 1912, and that the indebtedness, the payment of which had been secured by the mortgage, had not been satisfied at the time of the institution of the suit.

The…