Burns v. Clarksdale Production Credit Ass'n

This is a suit for money had and received, brought by the appellant in the Circuit Court to recover the sum of $398.90, representing the amount of a ‘‘ subsidy check” due him as a farmer under the Cotton Price Adjustment Payment Plan for the 1937 cotton program. It is agreed that the check was obtained by the appellee during the latter part of the year 1938 from the Department of Agriculture of the United States upon the alleged ground that the appellee was entitled to use and apply the same on an indebtedness owing to it by the appellant for loans made to him in connection with the making of…