Smith v. Johnson

This appeal involves a controversy between parties who respectively assert liens on a crop of cotton grown during the year 1917 on a certain plantation in Chicot County.

Robert Johnson was a tenant of appellees Trulock & Evans, under a contract that he would pay one-fourth of the crop as rent, and his share of the crop was twenty-eight bales after deducting the one-fourth delivered for rent. His share of the crop, when gathered and marketed, brought $3,142.11, and the account of appellees Trulock & Evans against him for money and supplies aggregated $3,518.93, which was $376.82 in excess of…