Coleman v. Siler
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before the Hon. John P. Hubbard. This action was brought by Q. P. Siler, against W. S. Coleman and J. S. Carroll, to recover damages for an alleged sale and conversion by the defendants of four’bales of cotton, grown on rented lands belonging to the plaintiff, and on which he claimed a statutory lien for rent, whereby said lien, of which he alleged the defendants had notice, was lost and destroyed; and was commenced on the 21st…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike. Tried before the Hon. John P. Hubbard. This action was brought by Q. P. Siler, against W. S. Coleman and J. S. Carroll, to recover damages for an alleged sale and conversion by the defendants of four’bales of cotton, grown on rented lands belonging to the plaintiff, and on which he claimed a statutory lien for rent, whereby said lien, of which he alleged the defendants had notice, was lost and destroyed; and was commenced on the 21st March, 1882. The complaint alleged that the four bales of cotton were grown, during the year 1881, by Sharper McKee, Henry…
1Opinion of the CourtSomekyille, J.
— There seems to have been a needless multiplicity of instructions demanded of the court by the appellant’s counsel, in the trial of this cause below, especially in view of the very few elementary principles which, in our jndg*440ment, should have controlled the decision of the jury in forming their verdict.
The action is one on the case, brought by Siler, as landlord, claiming damages for the loss or destruction of his lien for rent on four bales of cotton, purchased and shipped by defendants with a knowledge of plaintiff’s lien. The defendants claimed as purchasers from one Pennington, who held…
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