United States v. Brown

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Alleging that one Starnes, as security for moneys loaned him to make a crop, had given a crop and chattel mortgage on a tract of land 1 being farmed by him, the United States, as the owner of the note and mortgage, brought this suit against the debtor and against persons, including the appellee Brown, who had bought cotton from him, to recover the amount still due. The purchaser defendants admitted that they had purchased cotton from Starnes and that it was of the value alleged, but they alleged that the description in the mortgage was “too vague and indefinite to put…