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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTlN 

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Hononblo ftrd T. Porte 

county Attornry 

Kaufmea, Teur 

mlar sir: 

In row Utter 

the iollmtag hat 

18 dealer l rllr 

ohe8er who 80ia mioh 

0 the proririo~ OS 

~17 in ri~r 0t th0 rO0t 

tiOn 0t 8Wh tire8 and 

tgagr ana therefore it fr 

oh aortego ir r.ll& 

? letter of Hay $9 1940, rrlatlng to this 

enkna that. the tbe# and tube8 in queetlon 

the the tho mortge$a wa# exoOutod. 

titlelo 1666, Vernon*0 Penal code,, tads 8a r0110rrt 

*Ii •~ perron hm8 glren or dull hrreaitor 

give any mortgage, deea of trust or othor lion, 

in writing, upon any perion or novablo property 

or growing 0r0p or fam proauoe, 8na 8haii remove thr rams or any part thereof out of the 
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Hon. Boa T. Porter, Page a 

Stat., or out of the oounty in wh1oh it wa. 

looated at the time thr mortgese or lien wz8 

oreated, or shell eel1 or otherwire dlrpore of 

the sume with lntsnt to defraud the psraoh 

having euoh lien, either originally or by 

transter, he shnll be oonfined ln the ponitenMary for not lass than two nor zore than 

fire yeara. Proof thot the nortgegor removed 

euoh prnperty out of the county in rhioC it 

was located nt ths time the mortgage or lie& 

m8 created or that he rold or othexwlro dlrposed of the saao either orl~lnelly or by' 

transfer and that the mortgagor failed to..pap 

the debt or any part thereof when.duo for 

whioh tho mortgage or lien was gi'len, or shall 

fail to dollrer posee:sion of said property 

upon demand of the mortgagso, shall be prima 

ieoie evldenoe thst ruoh property wan removed 

or dispoesd of with Intent to defraud as prooldoa 

in this Aot." 

A8 seid in 10 Am. Jur., p. 800, *a ohattel mortgage 

upon appurtenances, fixturrs, and the like generally ooYer8 

personal property that is intlzataly oonneoted with the 

operations of the estebll.kTent or plant whioE 18 mortgaged.' 

Tires and tubes nre just as necessary to the preotioel 

operation of an autocoblle a8 the wheels. To allow a aan 

to remove each pert oi the automobile whioh is not described 

with sufficient oerteinty,to ldsntlty it when taken fros 

tne vehiole would be to per&t him to dispore of eyerythlag 

exoept the license plate, the ohas &ml the slyins heed. 

We do not believe that the Legislature eY0.r intended Article 

1558 to be oonstrusd with such strlotEee8. In the firet 

plaoe, we think a aortgago upon an automobile OoYars the 

tires and tubes m ite whealr at the tize the .zortgaGe i8 

&Yen, without any further deecriptlon. Hmevor, we do 

not have to rest our opinion on that alone, ior oortelnly 

the additional provision *together with al1 to&a, extra 

rimr, end other equipment now atteohedW would OOYer the 

tirea and tubes il they nerd not already included ae being 

a part o? the automobile. 

Froa Irvin ~8. Auto Finance CO., 40 9.w. (aa) 071, 

by the %aoo Court of Civil A;.pealfi, we quote: 

*In the case at bar, tha Pinance COWanY, 

when it took the nortgago in question, OYidently 
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intended to tmrr 8eoPrlt~ othOr then just the 

l utomobllo who0 it a080rib0a th0 property es 

'en 8utomblle, 6 spare tin end tub0 en+ l ll 

rqulpmont.' Cloerly the mortpgo w0tia 

Oovor eny 4na l 11a&aont thst wOntwl$h or 

balonfed to the l utoaoblls la qurstlon. 

I'm l ~? 

In the oaso o? @Tare= 0s. Stetoi T8 8.51. (Ma) 

917, the a4frnaant h4a b88n eonrloted or airp08146 0r aortgaged property, to wit, wool. The aO80tIptI4n oontelned In 

the aortg8pg;e -8 of owtaIn 8bsop, 'together with . . , 

611 wool grown end shorn iroll the l bmo dororlbea sheep.* 

The juagmat ras rOw80a en& the oeme remeniloa, but we 

think the Impl~oetlon 1s that suoh l desorlphlon rer 

ru??lOlent upon whIoh to beso 8 prosooutlon. The aosorlptlon oi thr wool WI 80 grneral that onoo rbrerea from 

the sheep it 009l.d not be id0ntiri0a es thet grown OA the 

pertlouler sheep without the 8Id of Oxtrueour tostllapny. 

Prom the oplnioa in that 0488 we quoter 

*By bill of ororptlon lo. 1 th0 eppollent oomplelor of the l otloa ot thi trial oourt 

In sustaining the state'8 objeotioa to tho Sollowla~ tertIs.ay Of the appellant: *Someon8 hea to pay th0 poturago out them to 

c. 8. word; met. we8 what I u80a it Sor the 

rhook In the .u! of (W.9: nhloh I ro0oir.d 

for the 8.10 or the wool.* !l'ho c o ur l t tteohrm 

to the bill the folloring qu~l?ioetlon, to witr 

*The alrtriot 6ttorneT objrot to th8 question8 

end l aswors redo before tho Juv end his 

objsotion rar rurtela8a, but ho did 808 request the dxoluslon of thi. .+Idenoe aor we8 

the same 8xOluded bf thr OOUrt. The jUr;r 

ho.rd 411 thr quratloku 4Aa easwors thornto.* We bollerr the l ppelleatt8 oontratlon 

murt bo rusteinrd booeuse the mortgeso upon Its ieoe dlroloror the feat that tho egpellent war perturing hlr 8lwep In C. R. Vford*8 

‘i”‘:~t~~~~~~~~r~~~~~~~a~.More n on the wool 

as woli a. tho Sheep, end I? the eppollent 

so&a the wool end eppliid the money to thr 

p4yWAt or tho rent au8 to word, then ho 

00tia u0t be gulltr or rnuaulmtl~ aiBDOBIna or mort~qed propert es t$. word we8 
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Hon. Fred T. Portor, Page 4 

entitled to prlorlty of pqnent out of the 

sheep and wool, and lo rupport of the views 

hereio expressed we refer to the following 

cases t Rogers v. Grigg et al (Tex:. CIT. App.) 

29 S. W. 654; Gorzm Co. T, Jones (Tex.-Clr, 

App.) 248 S. Vl. 448. Again, if the a?pellant thought that Word was entitled to be 

paid ths amount due for penturiag the Sheep 

out of tCe wool, whetter in iaot he vfas or 

not, and the appellant under suoh a belief i 

sold the wool ~AU had no present iatentioa 

OS defri1~4i~g the bmk, then ho would noti 

be guilty Of frhUdUl8Atly diSpO8i~g Of mPtgaged Drogerty because ths fraudulent 1; 

tent, which 1s the girt of the offense, would 

bs laoking. We are con8tralaed to holll that 

the appellant should ham beeri permitted to 

teatifg that he rold the wool and used the 

prO8eeUS of tha sble in pepant Of the rent 

due !ir. ‘.YorQ for pasturing the rheep, eAd 

this 18s~ sk,ould have been subnltted to the 

jury Under appropriate inetruOtiOn8 beoeure 

the fraUdUleAt intent whlah 1s the girt of 

the offense was e question to be subnltted to 

end betamined by the jury?* 

In our 0pi~i0~ the description OOAteiAed in the 

aortg%.ye 1s suffloisnt to embrace the tires and tubes with 

which the oar was epulgged at ths tize ths aortgage was 

given end that a ooAvictioA based upon the fraudulent Sale 

thereof muld be austelsed if all other elements of the 

offense are ale0 proven. 

BY L&iaLAL- GloAA R. x&WI. 

Assl8tant 

APPROVfO OPINION 0 COHMll-rEC 

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