Mooresville Enterprise
A very unpleasant duty of an Iredell County deputy sheriff was performed last Friday, when James F. Aldmon received seizure papers from Cabarrus County in which a former citizen of Cabarrus had mortgaged two mules and two cows in security for a secondhand automobile to a Concord dealer.
The tenant was coming in from the field with his mules at the noon hour and when they were divested of their gears, the officer laid claim. One of the mortgaged cows had died since the papers were given in exchange for the machine. The tenant was left stranded as to mules for the working of his crops, and the cow which furnished milk and butter for the family was taken. The scene was almost tragic and the heart of the officer melted away when the woman of the household prayed for the deliverance of the ones holding the mortgage from a life of torment in the next world.
The livestock was taken to a neighbor house to be held for a few days, giving the tenant time in which he would be permitted to raise the amount due on the mortgage.
From page 7 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, June 25, 1926
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