Price v. Thompson

Price brought a petition for certiorari, to set aside 'the foreclosure of a distress warrant; and he excepts to the judgment overruling his petition. It appears that a distress warrant was sworn out in a justice’s court; to which the defendant, Price, filed a counter-affidavit. 'Upon the trial of the issue in the justice’s court, it was uncontradicted, in the evidence, that Price *47rented a plantation in 1901 from' W. A. Sinquefield as agent for Sirs. H. G-. Sinquefield and Dollie Thompson and as guardian for Lofton Thompson. The rent contract was verbal, but Price went into possession and…