Puckett v. Reed

English, Ch. J.:

It appears that A. B. Harris rented his farm in Harris’ bottom, on "White River, Izard County, for the year 1871, to William Riley and others, for a stipulated rent, to be paid in cotton and corn; that on the 27th November, 1871, Riley, one of his tenants, removed from the farm to the gin or warehouse of A. & A. Jeffery & Co., at Mount Olive, 1,742 pounds of seed cotton grown on the leased premises. On the 11th December, 1871, Harris sued William Riley and the other tenants before a justice of the peace of Izard County, and, upon affidavit, bond, etc., obtained an attachment…