36 Kan. 144 | Kan. | 1887
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This was an action of replevin, brought by Resin Clark to recover possession of four hundred bushels of corn from J. R. Voorhees, the sheriff of Marshall county, who seized and was holding the same as such officer. The case is substantially the same in its facts as Souders v. Voorhees, just decided. The plaintiff claimed the corn by virtue of a chattel mortgage which was given by Thomas Burnside upon a horse and a quantity of corn, the corn being described as follows:
“Four hundred bushels of corn now growing and being on the west half of section thirty-six, town three south, of range eight, east of the sixth P. M.”
There were over one thousand bushels of corn upon the premises described; and it differed greatly in both quality and value. The corn was green and growing when the mortgage was executed, and no part of the same was designated or set apart as being the corn mortgaged or intended to be mort