Court Opinion

ID: 9445984
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 21:43:10.909788+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:28.928354
License: Public Domain

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
It seems to me the mortgage in issue here is in a form that has been evolved rather than prepared and though it has clauses and phrases badly put together, it sufficiently conveys “crops grown on any other lands cultivated by the mortgagor in the same county”. I would read the relevant parts of the mortgage to bring out that true intent, without changing the sense by omissions or additions as I see it in the following manner, viz.:
“The mortgagor . does . convey the following . crops . all of which are to be located on . the Joe Davis farm: All crops that may be planted within twelve months on the lands above described
and
on any
other lands cultivated by the mortgagor in the same county.” “To Have and to Hold the said crops unto the mortgagee forever.”
That the mortgagee shall “have and hold forever” the crops that may be planted on the other land in the county is certainly beyond dispute. I would grant review under Section 1291, 28 U.S.C.A.
I would reverse.