Smith v. Campbell
Smith v. Campbell
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
To review a judgment for defendant in error plaintiffs in error have sued out this writ. They also ask the issuance of a supersedeas. The case is fully briefed and, both sides so requesting, we will determine it on this application.
The record consists only of complaint and answer, judgment, and assignment of errors, and a stipulation of facts.
For convenience we will treat defendant in error, who as to a portion of the transaction comes here as the successor in interest of her deceased husband, as the principal throughout. For the same reason the fund in question, represented by a certain check deposited in the registry of the court, we will consider as cash.
Smith was indebted to Campbell. He leased ground from her for the season of 1919, and raised sugar beets thereon. The beets were contracted by Campbell to the Great Western Sugar Company at $10.00 per ton. Smith’s indebtedness to Campbell was secured by chattel mortgage
Campbell says this money is part of the payment for beets. Lehrman says it is a gift from the Sugar Company. The stipulation before us settles the question. “Thereafter * * * the Great Western Sugar Company * * * paid the additional sum of one dollar per ton for beets * * *. The * * * $602.09 herein tendered into court is the additional payment for beets.”
Smith’s mortgage to Campbell covered these beets. They were applied on Smith’s indebtedness, as evidenced by the bill of sale. The whole had become the property 'of Campbell prior to the pretended assignment to Lehrman, and Smith had nothing to assign. The intention of the parties is beyond doubt. Not knowing that the full purchase price had not been paid by the Sugar Company Smith failed to obtain, in his settlement with Campbell, the total credit to which he was entitled. Campbell takes
The supersedeas is denied and the judgment affirmed.
Garrigues, C. J., and Teller, J., concur.
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