Vinson v. Graves

This suit was instituted to recover the sum of six hundred and fifty dollars, the stipulated rent of a tract of land leased by plaintiff to defendant for the year 1858. The defendant in his answer admits that he leased from plaintiff one hundred and sixty acres of land, situate in the parish of Carroll, in this State, at the rate of $4 00 per acre; but pleads in bar of the demand for rent, that the land leased by him was overflowed, and remained inundated for a long period, during the year 1858 ; that by reason of the overflow, the crop planted *163by Mm was totally destroyed, and tlie land…