Stevenson v. Hancock

This action was commenced before a justice of the peace for the specific recovery of fifty barrels of corn, upon the trial of which in the circuit court, where it had been taken by appeal, plaintiff obtained judgment, from which defendant has appealed to this court. It appears that the corn sued for was grown iu 1876, ou a tract of land which had been rented by plaintiff to one Decker for $150 from the 1st day of March, 1876, to the 1st day of March, 1877, said rent payable at the end of the year; that said laud was owned by plaintiff in common with others; that by virtue of a decree rendered…