Staple Cotton Co-Operative Ass'n v. Thorne

The appellee sued the appellants for the value of cotton on which she had a deed of trust, and which was delivered by the grower thereof to the appellants, by whom it was sold and the proceeds applied to a debt due by the grower to the appellant Citizens’ Bank & Trust Company, which was secured by a deed of trust on property prior in time to the appellee’s deed of trust.

The question for decision is simply whether the description in the Citizens’ Bank & Trust Company’s deed of trust covers this cotton. That deed of trust conveys certain land in Humphreys county, Mississippi, “together with the…