Legal Opinion

Dorsett v. Watkins

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided June 20, 1916No. 7369PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Error from District Court, Jefferson County; Frank M. Bailey, Judge. Action by E. E. Watkins against Tom Dor-sett, in which the First National Bank of Ryan intervenes. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant and intervener bring error.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

GALBRAITH, C.

F. E. Watkins, as landlord, commenced this action in the court below against Tom Dorsett, his tenant, to recover rent claimed under a farm lease, and caused an attachment order to issue, and certain crops grown upon the leased premises to be seized thereunder. The First National Bank of Ryan, claiming a part of the property, to wit, certain cotton, under a chattel mortgage executed to it by the tenant, intervened, contending that its mortgage lien was superior to the claim of the landlord’s lien. A jury was waived, and there was trial to.the court upon an agreed…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Gafney v. KenisonSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1887
  2. In re DrakeDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 1902
  3. People ex rel. Rogers v. CaldwellIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
  4. Lemay v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1879
  5. Morgan v. OwensIllinois Supreme Court · 1907

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Chudnov v. Board of AppealsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1931
  2. Firstenberger v. McBeeSupreme Court of Kansas · 1923
  3. Mattison v. DunlapSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1942
  4. Morgan v. DoughtonNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1918
  5. State Ex Rel. Wahluke Inv. Co. v. Sup'r Ct.Washington Supreme Court · 1932

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