Cranston & Alexander v. Rogers
Supreme Court of Georgia
Distress warrant. Rent. Contracts. Nonsuit. Evidence. Landlord and tenant. Practice. Before Judge Lumpkin. Hancock superior court. April term, 1889. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
By written contract which was executed between Morris and Rogers, signed by both parties, the latter promised to pay the former 15,000 pounds of middling lint-cotton, packed in merchantable bales, the consideration being that Morris was to furnish Rogers a certain prescribed plantation, six mules, certain implements and utensils, a steam-engine, a cotton-gin, a packing-screw, and 4,000 pounds of fodder, 1,000 pounds of peas, 65 bushels of corn, 1,000 bushels of cotton-seed, 6 tons of commercial fertilizer and 2,500 pounds of side meat. The contract was made on the 2d…
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