Manis v. Flood

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Appellant having rented land from one Tallant, was sued by appellee, to whom Tallant had assigned the right to collect the rent. A distress warrant was also sued out at the instance of appellee, and levied on a portion of the cotton crop. The right of such an assignee to distrain for rent was controverted by appellant, and from a judgment sustaining the right and denying him any recovery of damages this appeal is prosecuted.

The remedy by distress is a summary one, and does not exist without a statute authorizing it. Article 3235 of our Revised Statutes gives to…