Ramsey

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of nonsuit granted at the end of plaintiff’s case on the motion of the defendants California Packing Corporation and E. Powers, who interposed their respective answers to the complaint. The defendants Kim and Hahn did not file an answer or answers to the complaint. The appeal is supported by a bill of exceptions.

The facts, in summary, may be stated as follows: Plaintiff was the owner in fee of 320 acres of ranch property which he leased to the defendants Kim and Hahn on the first day of November, 1917, for the term of one year wherein, plaintiff asserts in Ms brief, there was a stipulation that “the title to the crops shall remain in the party of the first part [plaintiff] until the entire rental is paid and the work performed.”, The complaint alleges that on the eighteenth day of March, 1918, the same defendant lessees gave to the plaintiff two promissory notes, one for $3,000 and the other for $2,000, and, to secure the payment thereof, at the same time gave to said plaintiff and owner of said real property a crop or chattel mortgage on all crops of sugar-beets, to matees, beans, Egyptian corn, and similar products “being,…