Franklin v. Tanner

1. Since a creditor who has retained title to personalty to secure the indebtedness has an interest in the property only to the extent of the unpaid debt, and can only to that extent recover in trover for the conversion of the property against one who is not a wrongdoer but who has acquired the property by purchase from the debtor (Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Gordon Co., 10 Ga. App. 311, 73 S. E. 594; Farmers & Merchants Bank v. Hamilton, 30 Ga. App. 194 (4), 117 S. E. 287), and since a landlord’s interest in the title to crops grown by his cropper is only to the extent of the value of the…