Merchants National Bank v. Greenwood

In 1898 the Merchants National Bank of Rome bought at sheriff’s sale certain land owned by Taylor, and took a deed to it from the sheriff, which was recorded in October of that year. In December of the same year, at which time Taylor was still in possession of the property, Greenwood rented a part of it from him *307for the ensuing year, and gave him a note for the rent, due the next November, and payable to Taylor or bearer, which Taylor sold and transferred to West & Company. In October, 1899, the bank sued out a distress warrant against Greenwood, which was levied on the crop grown by him on…