Goeing v. Outhouse

"Volney Carter, in the spring of 1876, rented from appellants forty acres of land on which to raise corn, the rent to be one-fourth of the crop.

On the 17th day of October, 1876, Carter having departed from the State, appellants issued their distress warrant against him for the rent alleged to be due, which was levied.upon the undivided three-fourths of the forty acres of corn. On the 8th of November, 1876, on trial had before a justice of the peace upon this distress proceeding, judgment was rendered . for the defendant, which, on appeal to the circuit court, was reversed, and a judgment was…