Pacific Coast Joint Stock Land Bank v. Jones

The controversy presented by this appeal concerns conflicting claims to a crop of broom corn which had been mortgaged by C. Lee Jones and S. C. Legare to the respondent bank during the time they were vendees in possession of the land on which it was grown. The bank’s right to foreclose this mortgage was challenged by the appellants, all of whom had advanced money or services for the purpose of growing the crop. James Ryan, who farmed the land, and Jones and Legare, although defendants in the action, did not appeal from the decree of foreclosure in favor of the bank.

In 1935 Jones and Legare…