Smith v. Roberts
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Smith v. Roberts
Opinion of the Court
Appellant’s assignments of error numbered one, two, and four are evidently founded upon a misapprehension in regard to a clause in the contract with Prescott under which he carried on the farm. This clause — so far as is material here — is that Prescott shall not “sell or remove, or suffer to be sold or removed, any of the products or produce of said farm or premises, of any kind, character, or description, until the division thereof, without the written consent” of the owner of the farm. The words “without the written consent” do not refer to a division of what may be produced; they simply pro
2. The trial court very property charged the jury to disregard the so-called “seed-grain note.” , It was undisputed that the grain for which it was given, upon the farm when Prescott took possession,, was deliven I to him by its owner, the payee in the note, under an agreement for an exchange of grain. Prescott, who had wheat elsewhere, was to deliver at Herman to Mrs. Yan Doren, the owner of the grain and the farm, an equal number of bushels, and thus save hauling for both parties. Later on, when he had seeded the farm with the grain so delivered him — in part, at least — he alleged an inability to comply with his part of the agreement relative to an exchange. And thereupon, at a time not exactly fixed by any of the witnesses, but probably in July, the note was made, antedated to May 1st, and delivered to Mrs. Yan Doren. Under these circumstances it was not a valid lien on Prescott’s share of the crop, as against respondent’s mortgage. Kelly v. Seely, 27 Minn. 385; Wallace v. Palmer, 36 Minn. 126; Nash v. Brewster, 39 Minn. 530.
3. It is possible, as appellant argues, that if this verdict be allowed to stand, he has not received that share of the grain covered by his mortgage. But there is abundant testimony on which the jury could have found, as they undoubtedly did, that the grain was divided as it came from the threshing-machine, Prescott’s share then being placed in what was known as the “middle bin” in the granary, It was from this bin that the grain in controversy was taken, and not from the bins in which had been placed that set apart to Mrs. Yan Doren in the division.
Order affirmed.
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