Tucker v. Cox

Crawford, Justice.'

D. H. Tucker sued out a distress warrant against G. W. Cox, in which he claimed that the said Cox was “justly indebted to him in the sum of twenty-five hundred and thirteen pounds of lint cotton, for rent for the year 1879, said rent being now due and unpaid, the value of said amount of cotton supposed to be two hundred and seventy-five dollars."

A counter-affidavit was filed denying that any part of the rent distrained for was due, which caused the papers to be returned to the next succeeding term of the superior court for the county, and at which term the defendant…