Kelshaw
Sinsheimer Bros. v. Kelshaw
Opinion
lead Opinion
Kerrigan, J.
Judgment in this case went for defendant A. J. Sousa against-the plaintiff. Thereafter plaintiff’s motion for a new trial was denied, and from such order it now prosecutes this appeal.
In May, 1906, Frank G. Lucas, as security for the payment of a promissory note, gave to A. J. Souza a mortgage on his ■crop of beans, and at the same time his wife, Emilia Lucas, as further security for the same note, executed to Souza a chattel mortgage on certain horses, farming implements, and other personal property, being her separate property acquired from her former husband, then deceased.
In November, 1906, the plaintiff recovered a judgment against Frank G. Lucas, which was regularly entered and docketed. Disputing the validity of the crop mortgage held by Souza, it caused the sheriff to take the crop by virtue of a writ of attachment directed against the property of Lucas, whereupon Souza brought suit to foreclose said mortgage, under which action the beans were placed in the hands of defendant Kelshaw as receiver. In attaching the crop of beans the plaintiff did not pay or tender to the mortgagee the amount of the mortgage and interest, or deposit the amount thereof with the county…