Wilkinson v. Ketler
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Butler. Tried before the Hon John K. Henry. William- W. Wilkinson instituted in the Circuit Court of Butler county an action of detinue against Ann Ketler to recover two bales of cotton and one hundred bushels of corn. The defendant pleaded the general issue, with leave to give in evidence any matter that might be specially pleaded.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Butler. Tried before the Hon John K. Henry. William- W. Wilkinson instituted in the Circuit Court of Butler county an action of detinue against Ann Ketler to recover two bales of cotton and one hundred bushels of corn. The defendant pleaded the general issue, with leave to give in evidence any matter that might be specially pleaded. On the trial, the plaintiff introduced in evidence an agreement for the delivery of three bales of lint cotton, of five hundred pounds each, executed by one March Cook, “ for advances with which to make a crop” in 1875. He also…
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, J.—
Section 2961 of the Revised Code declares a lien in favor of the landlord, on the crop grown on rented land, for rent for the current year, and provides a remedy by attachment for its enforcement. This section was amended, and the old section as found in the Revised Code repealed, by the act approved March 8, 1871—Pamph. Acts 19— which, in lieu of said section, enacts that “ a landlord has a lien on the crop grown on rented lands, superior to all other liens, for rent on, and advances made, tt Aqt <- -id in the cultivation of said land for the current yt, entitled to the process of…
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