Sargent v. Sarival Storage Co.

In the spring of 1920 one E. R. Turman rented forty (40) acres of land from-Y. O. Sargent, hereinafter called plaintiff, situated south of Mesa, Arizona. By the terms of .the lease it was provided that the rent should be secured “by a crop mortgage on the crop to be raised on the premises during the season of 1920,” and, on the same date, Turman executed and delivered to plaintiff a note and mortgage in compliance with said provision in the lease. This mortgage was duly recorded on the twenty-second day of March. None of the crops covered by the mortgage were in existence, nor had they even…