Lee v. Ellis

J. W. Lee brought this suit against Jim Ellis and Hallet Ellis to enforce a landlord’s lien in the sum of $247.83 for rent and supplies.

It is alleged in the complaint that the defendants have disposed of some of the cotton grown by them on the farm of the plaintiff without his consent and without paying all of the rent. '

The defendants deny that they owed the plaintiff any amount whatever for rent and supplies, and filed a cross-complaiut against the plaintiff in which they asked for a judgment against him,, because he had sold and disposed of the proceeds of all the cotton grown on the place…