Lineville Nat. Bank v. Weaver
Lineville Nat. Bank v. Weaver
Opinion of the Court
There were seven counts in the complaint, claiming separately for conversion, trespass, detinue, and for money-had and received, to which were interposed pleas of the general issue, payment, set-off, and recoupment.
The facts necessary for a consideration of the question's involved are as follows: The husband of plaintiff died in May, 1914, owing the defendant bank $247.50, evidenced by a promissory note. On May 21st the plaintiff applied to the defendant bank and obtained a loan of $75, to secure which she executed and delivered to defendant a mort *432 gage on all crops grown by her during that year, the due date of the mortgage being October 15, 1914, and in and by said mortgage the title to the property was conveyed and the right to possession given to the defendant. During the fall of 1914 the plaintiff stored four bales of the cotton covered by the mortgage and carried the warehouse receipts and delivered them to the defendant. The defendant kept the cotton until February, when it sold it, and applied the proceeds to the debt of the husband. Here arises the real controversy in this case, the defendant contending and offering testimony to sustain the contention that at the time the loan was made and the mortgage .executed, plaintiff agreed to pay the $247.50 due by the husband to the bank, and that when the cotton was turned over to the bank it was with the instructions that it should be sold and the proceeds applied to that note, and that the bank did that. The plaintiff on the contrary contended that she did not agree to pay her husband’s debt, and did not authorize the sale .of the cotton at all, but that she demanded its return, and the defendant refused to deliver it, and offered testimony to prove this contention. She also testified that out of other moneys she had paid all of her note and mortgage except $35.
Reversed and remanded.
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