Houghton v. Bauer
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Montgomery Circuit Court. This action was brought originally before a justice of tbe peace. It is a suit on a promissory note for $200 executed by defendant Samuel Ohatterton to plaintiff. -The note contains an agreement that suit might be brought thereon in justice’s court.
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Appeal from Montgomery Circuit Court. This action was brought originally before a justice of tbe peace. It is a suit on a promissory note for $200 executed by defendant Samuel Ohatterton to plaintiff. -The note contains an agreement that suit might be brought thereon in justice’s court. Plaintiff filed a petition in which he alleged that the note was giren for the rent of certain premises described in the petition; also that the defendant Bauer made some claim to the crops grown on the demised premises; and he asked that an attachment issue for the enforcement of his landlord’s lien. A writ…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
I. It was proved on the trial in the circuit court that Chatterton subleased the premises, for the rent of 1. IíAND-loud's lien: enforcement ofsub-°rop tenant. which the note sued on was given to plaintiff, to Bauer, and that the latter raised thereon the crop com on which the landlord’s attachment was levied. The first question which arises on the record is whether the landlord has a lien for his rent on crops grown on the demised premises during the term by a subtenant.
The lien of the landlord is purely statutory, and the answer to the question depends upon the construction which should be…
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