12 Ga. App. 732 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1913
The question in this case arose on a rule to distribute money, and was decided by the judge of the court below, by consent, without the intervention of a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts. The facts were as follows: In the early part of January, 1912, J. L. Farmer sold to B. H. Holt a horse, and took a mortgage from Holt for the purchase-money. This mortgage was properly executed, and was recorded at once in Worth county. Subsequently Holt executed a second mortgage, covering this-horse, to one Phillips. The second mortgage was properly executed, and was recorded in Tift county. It was foreclosed by Phillips, and the horse was levied upon and sold by virtue of the mortgage fi. fa. Farmer also foreclosed his mortgage on the horse, and had an execution issued thereon. This execution was placed in the hands of a levying officer before the sale of the horse, with instructions to the officer to hold up the money arising from the sale and await the order of the court directing its proper distribution as between the two mortgage executions. When the first mortgage given by Holt to Farmer was executed, Holt lived in Tift county on a place known as the Parks place, during the year 1910; and when he moved 'from that place about Christmas, 1911, he contemplated moving to an
The only question to be decided by this court is as to the record of the mortgage executed by Holt to Farmer. It is conceded that this mortgage was for the purchase-money of the horse sold by Farmer to Holt, and it is not contended that Phillips, who took the second mortgage, had any actual knowledge of the existence of the first mortgage. If Farmer’s mortgage was properly recorded, of course it constituted constructive notice to Phillips, and Farmer was entitled to the proceeds of the horse. The Civil Code (1910), • § 3259, provides that a mortgage on personalty must be recorded “in the v county where the mortgagor resided at the time of its execution;” and it is insisted by the plaintiff in error that the word “resided,” in this section, refers to actual residence of the mortgagor, as contradistinguished from his domicile, or political residence. In determining whether a mortgagor is a resident of a particular county, the question as to his domicile may not be in-