Hattiesburg Production Credit Ass'n v. Smith

Appellant appeals from a judgment, upon a jury verdict, in favor of appellee, for $700 damages, as claimed by appellee, resulting from the wrongful seizure and sale by the trustee of personal property conveyed by a trust deed executed by appellee to secure payment of an indebtedness to appellant. The trustee was not a party to the suit. Appellee claims that he assigned to the appellant, as a cash payment on his debt, a government rent check for $66', due to be paid to appellee some six months thereafter, in consideration of which payment appellant, through one Wilkes, a collector for…