First National Bank v. Yuma National Bank

The question involved in this suit is the validity of a duly recorded chattel mortgage upon an unplanted crop of maize as against a later mortgage on the same crop given after it was planted.

The First National Bank of Yuma took from one W. A. Gray two chattel mortgages on crops that the mortgagor had not then planted but contemplated planting. These mortgages were on cotton to be planted and grown during 1924 and 1925, in acreage and description as follows: forty acres of the N. W. % of the N. W. %, thirty acres of the S. W. % of the N. W. % and thirty acres of the N. W. % of the N. E. % of…