70 So. 985 | Ala. Ct. App. | 1915
This suit was for the conversion of a bale of cotton, and was tried on the issues made under a plea of the general issue.
The facts in this case are not like those in the case of Brooks v. Greil Bros. Co., 179 Ala. 459, 60 South. 387, where the fiduciary relation of husband and wife entered into consideration, and the plaintiff in that case had armed her husband as her general agent “with full authority to rent the place and collect the rents, and to dispose of said rents for a limited or specific purpose” — it being held in that case (which was a suit by the wife as plaintiff for money had and received to recover of an innocent third party purchaser the price of cotton received through the agent from a tenant) that if the agent had misappropriated the rent he had been given authority to collect, he merely exceeded his authority as agent, and that the wife, who armed him with the authority, should suffer.—Brooks v. Greil Bros., supra. The facts in this case without dispute show that the plaintiff, Folmar, who held a mortgage on Miller’s crop for the year 1913, had never authorized Miller as his agent, or otherwise, to sell the crop of that year, or any part of it. We find nothing in the additional facts testified to by Miller that in previous years he had sold the cotton raised by him in those years when the plaintiff held other mortgages against him that would estop the plaintiff from asserting his rights under the mortgage held by him to the 1913 crop as against the defendant, who it does not appear was even apprised of the facts as to the sales by Miller on previous years, or that he had constituted the mortgagor his agent to sell the mortgaged property and account to him for the proceeds.
The cases cited by appellant, with reference to the rule as to the registration of deeds to realty from any other person than the grantor, from whom title is claimed, not being operative to give constructive notice to a subsequent purchaser, are not applicable to the case in hand.
The only assignments of error are that the court erred in giving the general charge for the plaintiff, and in refusing a similar charge for the defendant. In this we think the trial court committed no error.
Affirmed.