Moccasin State Bank v. Waldron

of the court.

1. It is conceded that the controversy here is not over the crops but over the right of the plaintiff to recover a money judgment for the use and occupation of the lands described in plaintiff’s complaint.

No question has been raised as to the bona fides of the chattel mortgage executed by the Browns to Waldron. “A mortgage may be given upon a growing crop or a crop to be grown, and the lien thereof continues after severance, whether remaining in its original state or threshed or otherwise prepared for market,” but the lien attaches only to crops next maturing after the execution…