Court Opinion

ID: 3421545
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 19:48:48.482256+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:21:24.391729
License: Public Domain

This is an action by appellee against appellant to foreclose a chattel mortgage on certain growing crops, such mortgage being executed to secure notes for the cash rent of the lands upon which the crops grew, the same having been leased by appellee to appellant. There was judgment in favor of appellee for the amount of the notes, foreclosing the chattel mortgage, and making permanent a temporary injunction enjoining appellant from disposing of the crops involved, from which, after appellant's motion for a new trial was overruled, this appeal. The error assigned is the court's action in overruling the motion for a new trial.
Appellant's contention in this court is that appellee prevented him from selling the mortgaged crops that he might thereby pay his obligation to appellee, and that therefore he cannot complain of appellant's default in making such payments, citing to sustain his contention, 1 Beach, Modern Law on Contracts § 405, which states the rule that where the promisee disables the promisor from the performance of a contract, he has no right to complain of such default. But such rule has no application to the facts of this case. The chattel mortgage foreclosed expressly provided: "And the mortgagor hereby expressly agrees not to remove the said property from the place where it now is without the consent of the mortgagee, nor to sell, assign or lease the same without such consent." *Page 301 
The evidence disclosed that appellee sold a part of the crops mortgaged before the first note became due, without the consent of the mortgagee. Thereupon, to protect his interest in the mortgaged property, appellee notified the purchasers of his chattel mortgage and the purchasers then refused to make payment to the mortgagor. Appellee was within his legal rights in preventing the sale of the mortgaged property without some arrangement for the application of the proceeds of sale to the payment of his debt. The court did not err in continuing the temporary injunction in force as a permanent injunction.
Affirmed.