Buck v. Paine
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of De Soto County. Hon. E. S. Fisher, Judge. The facts of this case fully appear in the opinion of the court..
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Error to the Circuit Court of De Soto County. Hon. E. S. Fisher, Judge. The facts of this case fully appear in the opinion of the court.. It is assigned for error: 1. In giving the instructions asked for by plaintiff. 2. In refusing the instructions asked for by defendant. 3. In refusing motion for a new trial. 1. We do not claim that the legislature has the power, or that-the act of 1872 so means to give the laborer a lien on any part of the crop, to which his employer never had title. On the contrary, we admit that the employer of labor has no right by that, or any other contract, to make a…
1Opinion of the CourtSimrall, J.
Three questions are presented by this record:
First. Whether a mortgage given by a lessee for supplies is superior to the lien of a laborer, employed by the lessee in its production, the mortgage being older than the contract to labor.
Second. Whether a purchaser of part of the crop (1 bale cotton) from the laborer gets a good title as against the mortgagee.
Third. Whether the purchaser (the mortgage not being recorded) had notice of the mortgage.
*652The mortgage was executed the 14th day of February, 1873, and included the crops to be grown that year by Arlow Mince.
On the 6th of April, 1873, Thomas…
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