State v. Reeder
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before HUDSON, J., Oconee, March, 1892. Indictment against William Reeder for selling personal property covered by a lien.
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Before HUDSON, J., Oconee, March, 1892. Indictment against William Reeder for selling personal property covered by a lien. The case came to this court on the following exceptions : I. Because the contract for rent between J. G. Hendrix and A. C. Brucke, the prosecutor, being for one thousand pounds of lint cotton, constituted a prior and preferred lien only on the cotton crop grown by said Hendrix on said lands, and on no other crop or crops, and his honor erred in not so holding. II. Because the prosecutor, Brucke, was compelled under the terms of the contract for rent first to exhaust the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
The appeal in this case questions the correctness of the judgment rendered against appellant under an indictment charging him with having violated the provisions of section 2515 of the General Statutes by selling certain personal property covered by a lien. We learn from the agreed statement of facts set out in the “Case,” that one Hendrix rented from the prosecutor, Brucke, for the year 1891, certain lands for agricultural purposes, agreeing verbally to pay as rent therefor one thousand pounds of lint cotton ; and that during…
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