Lewis

This was an action to foreclose a mortgage given hy defendants John H. Hall, Howard H. Hall, and Emmett H. Hall upon a volunteer crop of barley growing upon land belonging to the defendant San Joaquin Valley Farm Lands Company (a corporation), hereinafter referred to as the Land Company, and for which land they held a contract of purchase. The defendants Hall confessed judgment in the sum of $2,754.20, the amount of the obligation to secure which the crop mortgage was given, for which sum, with interest, judgment was duly awarded against them; but as to the Land Company the court decreed that the plaintiff take nothing, and that the rights of said company in said crop so mortgaged were.superior to those of the plaintiff, and denied to the plaintiff any relief by way of foreclosure. Pending the litigation a receiver was appointed upon the prayer of the plaintiff, and in its judgment the court ordered that the balance in his hands, amounting to the sum of $1,250.88, be paid to the Land Company. The court also, after final judgment, made an order that the compensation of said receiver, amounting to the sum of four hundred dollars, be paid by the plaintiff. The appeal is by plaintiff…