First National Bank v. Womach

The plaintiff bank seeks foreclosure of a crop chattel mortgage. The defendant, Womach, resists such foreclosure, claiming ownership of the crop freed from the claimed mortgage lien of the bank, rested upon his purchase of the interest of the mortgagor in the land after the execution of the mortgage, at a sheriff’s sale under an execution issued upon a personal money judgment rendered against the mortgagor. A trial in the superior court for Lincoln county upon the merits resulted in a decree of foreclosure against Womach as well as against the mortgagor. From this disposition of the cause in…