Irwin v. McDowell

Belcher, C.

This is an action to recover from the' defendant .the sum of three thousand dollars, and interest thereon, the payment of which is alleged to have been secured by a chattel mortgage.

The facts stated in the complaint are, in substance, as follows: On the twenty-third day of November, 1889, *120one Robert L. Gouts executed to the plaintiff a mortgage on a crop of wheat, barley, and oats, then being planted on land in San Diego County, and to be harvested in the year 1890. The mortgage was properly verified, acknowledged, and recorded, and was given to secure payment of the mortgagor’s…