Armstrong v. Walker

This case presents the question, whether the landlord, by virtue of his lien for rent on the crop growing on the rented land, can recover of the factor or commission merchant of the tenant, who sells the cotton for the tenant, and appropriates the proceeds to' the payment of a debt due such factor, by consent or direction of the tenant — he having notice that his debtor is a tenant.

By the act of 1857-8, ch. 52, sec. 3; Code, sec. 3542, our law on this subject was amended as follows: “And the person entitled to the rent may recover from the purchaser of the crop, or any part of it, with notice…