Wilkes v. Adler, Goldman & Co.

Willie, Chief Justice.

Appellees, having a judgment against one Warner Dawson, had execution issued thereon, and levied upon a quantity of seed cotton belonging to Dawson, and found upon the premises of the appellant. The officer making the levy removed the cotton from these premises to a gin house and had it ginned and packed into two bales of cotton. These he sold under the execution to the appellees, who bought them subject to Wilkes’s lien, hereafter mentioned, and took them into possession. Dawson was a tenant of Wilkes, and raised the cotton on the land rented of the latter.during the…