Polytinskey v. Brindley , 21 Ala. App. 185 ( 1925 )

RICE, J.

The appellee brought suit against the appellant, seeking damages for the wrongful taking of certain cotton. His claim was based upon a mortgage executed to him by E. O. and F. B. Garner, conveying “the entire cotton crop (of said Garners) raised in Morgan county for year 1919”; the allegation being made that appellant purchased the cotton, the basis of the suit, from the said Garners. The appellant, against whom judgment was rendered in the court below, requested the general affirmative charge in his favor, and the propriety of its refusal is the chief question before us for decision.

Before plaintiff (appellee) was entitled to recover, the burden was upon him to show by the evidence that the cotton purchased by appellant was some of that conveyed to plaintiff (appellee) in the mortgage referred to. This he failed to do. We can find no evidence from which the jury could legally infer that the cotton purchased'by appellant from the said Garner was any of that conveyed to appellee in his mortgage from the Garners. Of consequence the trial court was in error in refusing to give, at appellant’s request, the general affirmative charge.

Reversed and remanded.