Pierce v. Willson

Mr. Presiding Judge POWELL

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

In the Court of Civil Appeals, Mrs. J. K. Pierce was the appellee and O. C. Sewell the appellant. The nature of this cause has been correctly stated by the Court of Civil Appeals in the following language:

"‘Appellee owned 150 acres of land in Hopkins County, which she rented to one E. E. Sewell for the year 1920. In February, March and June of that year she loaned money to said Sewell to enable Mm, she claimed, to make a crop en the land, taking his promissory notes therefor and a mortgage on the crop and…