Ferniman v. Nowlin
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Marion Circuit Court; Brice B. Hudgins, Judge; statement by ti-ie court. Charles Burrus rented from C. C. Nowlin and D. S. Nowlin the “Toney farm” in Marion County for the year 1906. The Nowlins furnished him supplies, as he and they testify, “to enable him to make the crop” during the year 1906 according to an itemized account which amounted to the sum of $103.32. When Burrus gathered his cotton (two bales) he took it to the Nowlins’ gin, and told them when it…
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Appeal from Marion Circuit Court; Brice B. Hudgins, Judge; statement by ti-ie court. Charles Burrus rented from C. C. Nowlin and D. S. Nowlin the “Toney farm” in Marion County for the year 1906. The Nowlins furnished him supplies, as he and they testify, “to enable him to make the crop” during the year 1906 according to an itemized account which amounted to the sum of $103.32. When Burrus gathered his cotton (two bales) he took it to the Nowlins’ gin, and told them when it was ginned to wrap it in the bagging of one Wm. Ferniman that was at the gin. The cotton was ginned and baled, being…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts). First. The landlord and tenant both testified that the articles of supplies sued for on’ the account were furnished to enable the,tenant to make the crop. The supplies were furnished for that purpose. That is all the statute contemplates. The fact, if proved, that the tenant could or could not have made the crop without other supplies than those furnished by appellees would not tend to show that they had not furnished supplies to enable the tenant to make the crop, or that the supplies furnished by them were unnecessary.
The court did not err in refusing to…
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