Purdie v. Lekve

The case was tried to the court and findings made in favor of intervener. Plaintiff appeals from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The facts are not in dispute. Shortly stated they are: On December 31, 1924, L. G. Howser, the owner of a 160-acre farm in Polk county, this state, executed a chattel mortgage to the intervener upon one-third of the crop to be sown and harvested during 1925 to secure the payment of promissory notes in the sum of $606.09, which mortgage was duly filed in the register of deeds office of Polk county on January 2, 1925. On March 30, 1925, Howser leased the…