Hanks v. Leslie

I. Leslie rented a farm, the separate property of Mrs. Annie Gallegley, wife of T. B. Gallegley, for the year 1912. For the use of this farm the tenant agreed to pay one-third of the corn and one-fourth of the cotton raised by him during the year. This rental amounted to 3 bales of cotton and 25 bushels of corn. A. R. Hanks, who held a judgment against T. B. Gallegley, procured the issuance and service of a writ of garnishment upon Leslie to subject this cotton and corn to the payment of the judgment. The garnishee answered, alleging the rental contract above mentioned, and the fact that he…