Lamberton v. Harris
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Independence Circuit Court; R. E. Jeffery, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant instituted this action against the appellees, alleging that she rented them certain lands for which they agreed to pay her, for the year 1911, the sum of $999; that they had paid her the sum of $405, leaving a balance of $593.63, for which she asked judgment. The appellant set up a written contract evidencing the lease, signed by the appellees.
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Appeal from Independence Circuit Court; R. E. Jeffery, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant instituted this action against the appellees, alleging that she rented them certain lands for which they agreed to pay her, for the year 1911, the sum of $999; that they had paid her the sum of $405, leaving a balance of $593.63, for which she asked judgment. The appellant set up a written contract evidencing the lease, signed by the appellees. The appellees answered, admitting that they rented the lands, and set up that appellant had been paid in the following manner, towit: That the year 1911 was…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts). The court correctly submitted the only issue in the case, as to whether or not there was a valid accord and satisfaction. The testimony, viewed in its strongest light for the appellees, was sufficient to sustain the verdict.
Conceding that the appellees turned over the cotton grown by them during the year 1911 to the appellant in satisfaction of the balance due for rent of that year, as contended by them, appellant, nevertheless insists that inasmuch as there was no formal instrument of release purporting to release the appellees from the debt due by them…
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