Fenton v. Price
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Little Biver Circuit Court; James S. Steel, Judge; STATEMENT 0E EACTS. W. S. Price sued W. 0. Fenton to recover damages in the sum of $282.05 which he alleged he sustained by reason of the former refusing to allow him to sell his one-half interest in six bales of cotton raised by him as a share-cropper under Fenton.
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Appeal from Little Biver Circuit Court; James S. Steel, Judge; STATEMENT 0E EACTS. W. S. Price sued W. 0. Fenton to recover damages in the sum of $282.05 which he alleged he sustained by reason of the former refusing to allow him to sell his one-half interest in six bales of cotton raised by him as a share-cropper under Fenton. W. 0. Fenton rented a part of the plantation of the Bed Biver Plantation & Bealty Company for the year 1918, and agreed to pay as rent therefor one-third of the corn and one-fourth of the cotton which he raised on the land. Hiram Bradley was the representative of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
(after stating the. facts). Fenton rented land from the corporation of which Hiram Bradley was the manager and agreed to pay, as rent therefor for the year 1918, one-third of the corn and one-fourth of all the cotton raised by him. Price was a cropper on the shares under Fenton. He raised twelve bales of cotton, and under his contract with Fenton he was to receive one-half of the cotton raised by him in payment of his services. Under their agreement the title to the cotton raised by Price was in Fenton, and it was the latter’s duty to deliver to the former one-half of the cotton when it was…
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