Sutton v. Graham
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Bolivar county. Hon. Frank E. Larkin, Judge. Mrs. Sutton, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; Graham, apjiellee, was defendant there. The suit was begun by Mrs. Sutton, a tenant, by the institution of a replevin for' property which had been seized, under an attachment for rent in favor of Graham, the landlord.
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From the circuit court of Bolivar county. Hon. Frank E. Larkin, Judge. Mrs. Sutton, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; Graham, apjiellee, was defendant there. The suit was begun by Mrs. Sutton, a tenant, by the institution of a replevin for' property which had been seized, under an attachment for rent in favor of Graham, the landlord. The defendant, the landlord, Graham, answered the replevin by an avowry; the issue, which turned upon the amount of the rent due (a much smaller sum than that claimed by the landlord having been tendered to him by the tenant), was decided in Graham’s…
1Opinion of the Court
Terral, J.,
'delivered the opinion of the court.
Graham, being the owner of the Jarnigan place, on the Mississippi river, proposed, through the Williamson Land Investment Company of Memphis, to sell the same. The nature and general terms of the contract, denominated “Kent Contract and Option to Purchase,” seem to have been commonly known in the neighborhood of the Jarnigan place, where appellant lived. In December, 1899, Harriett Sutton wrote to the Williamson Company that she wished to purchase forty or eighty acres of said Jarnigan plantation, which was quite a large one, pointing it out, in…
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