Oxford v. Ford

Crawford, Justice.

This suit arose on a distress warrant, sued out by the plaintiff in error before the debt was due, charging the defendant with removing and seeking to remove his crop from the premises. • A counter-affidavit was filed denying that the debt was due, or that the defendant was removing, or seeking to remove, the crops from the premises.

The case was decided on an agreed statement of facts, which were: That the plaintiff had contracted to sell the defendant the land upon which the crop was raised, and if the defendant should fail to pay the first installment, which fell due on…