Johnson v. Tacneau

Mrs. Johnson leased her plantation to J. F. Tacneau, during the year 1867, for twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars. She also undertook to advance a certain sum of money for supplies-for the plantation. At the expiration of the lease, tlie rent not having been paid, Mrs Johnson had twenty-one mules and a lot of farming; implements (which had been employed in the cultivation of the place), provisionally seized to secure the payment of the rent. Charles Faurie, Jr., intervened, and claimed to be the owner of the mules, and prayed for damages done him by the seizure of his property.

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