Powell v. Smith

J. L. Powell sued out distress warrants against A. P. Caldwell and Hester . Caldwell, his tenants, claiming an indebtedness due him by the tenants of $3,-500 for rents and for money and supplies furnished them by him during the year 1920 to enable them to make a crop on the farm leased to them by him for that year. Suit to foreclose the liens which had been fixed by the levy of the distress warrants was instituted in the district court of Wichitia county and was tried before a jury on special issues. One of the findings of the jury was that there was a balance due plaintiff by the defendants…