Crump & Rodgers Co. v. Southern Implement Co.

Ed. F. McFaddin, Associate Justice.

This is a controversy between the mortgagees and a lien claimant under § 51-404 et seq. Ark. Stats. The mortgagees are Crump & Rodgers Company and Dabney Crump, the appellants; the lien claimant is Southern Implement Company, Inc., the appellee; and we will refer to the parties by the designations in this Court.

In 1953 O. T. Pickard purchased a John Deere cotton picking machine. Subsequently he mortgaged the machine to the Phillips National Bank, and the mortgage is now held by the appellants. In the cotton picking season of 1956 Pickard had appellee repair…