Johnson v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. D. W. Speaks. Conversion by J. T. Thompson against L. H. Johnson. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Plaintiff sued the defendant in an action on the case for the conversion of certain cotton, upon which plaintiff claimed a lien for rent and advances for the year 1911, as landlord or Clarence Hendrix, who grew the cotton on the rented premises.
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Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. D. W. Speaks. Conversion by J. T. Thompson against L. H. Johnson. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Plaintiff sued the defendant in an action on the case for the conversion of certain cotton, upon which plaintiff claimed a lien for rent and advances for the year 1911, as landlord or Clarence Hendrix, who grew the cotton on the rented premises. The evidence for plaintiff tended to show that he leased the particular lands to Clarence Hendrix, and made advances to him. The defendant’s evidence tended to show that plaintiff leased…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
The two questions presented for review are comprehended in the special charges requested by and refused to defendant.
Conceding, without deciding, that a landlord has no lien upon the crops of a subtenant for advances made directly to him, and that plaintiff could not recover in this case unless he were the landlord of Clarence Hendrix during the time the advances were made to him, defendant was nevertheless not entitled to an instruction denying plaintiff’s right to recover unless he had rented the land to Clarence Hendrix, or if he had rented it to Enoch Hendrix, for the year 1911. The…
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