Way v. Bailey

This ease was a trover suit against the plaintiff’s cropper, for the conversion of cotton and corn, grown upon the plaintiff’s land, and to the-possession of which he was entitled under sections 3705 and 3707 of' the Civil Code (1910). It is certified by the trial judge (ground 2 of the amendment to the motion for a new trial) that “the evidence discloses that Way, as cropper, at the time of disposing of said cotton, was only due the said Bailey for supplies or otherwise, a sum much less than value of property, while the court permitted the plaintiff to have judgment for the entire value of…