Stockton Savings & Loan Society v. Purvis

Citations

• 5 Cal. Unrep. 164
• 42 P. 441
• 1895 Cal. LEXIS 1219

Syllabus

<p>Pledge of Crops for Bent—Creditors of Lessee.—An oral agreement between landlord and tenant that title to crops raised during the term should remain in the landlord, and that the crop was to be put in warehouse in the landlord’s name, and that from a sale thereof the landlord was to retain as rent an amount equal to the rent reserved in the lease, and turn over the balance to the tenant, is merely an agreement that, after the crop was harvested and stored, it should become a pledge for payment of the rent, and does not create a lien which would support an action of conversion against a sheriff for levying on the crop while growing, and seizing it under attachment against the tenant as soon as harvested.</p>