Childress v. Harmon

B. M. Childress, appellant, sued in the justice court J. H. Harmon for $142.42, and caused a writ of garnishment to issue against the First State Bank of Terrell. The bank answered that said Harmon was indebted to it in the sum of $185.50, and interest, to secure which Harmon had given it a mortgage on his crop of cotton grown during 1913, and that Harmon had delivered to it 11 bales of cotton which it held subject to said mortgage. On January 13, 1914, J. V. Harmon intervened and pleaded, in substance, that he rented to J. H. Harmon certain land for the year 1913 and on which said cotton was…