Sellers & Orum Co. v. Hardaway
Decision Date | 07 November 1914 |
Docket Number | 135 |
Citation | 188 Ala. 388,66 So. 460 |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Parties | SELLERS & ORUM CO. v. HARDAWAY et al. |
Appeal from City Court of Montgomery; Gaston Gunter, Judge.
Action by the Sellers & Orum Company against J.H. Hardaway and others. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
Weil Stakely & Vardaman, of Montgomery, for appellant.
Walton H. Hill, of Montgomery, for appellees.
This is an action by the assignee of a mortgagor against the purchaser of cotton from a tenant, and grounds the complaint upon the destruction of the asserted lien of the mortgagor the instrument having been, previous to the purchase, seasonably recorded in the county wherein the wrong alleged was committed. The contention of the defendants is that at the time the mortgage in question was executed the mortgagor had no such interest in the lands mentioned therein as could render the subject of mortgage the crops to be grown thereon. The court below approved this contention, which conclusion cast the result against the plaintiffs (appellants). Our view is that the ruling of the trial court was well made. The evidence bearing on his inquiry is as follows:
James McBride, witness for the plaintiff, being duly sworn, testified as follows:
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