Strauss & Steinhardt v. Harrison
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Butler. Tried before the Hon. John P. Hubbard. This action was brought by Williamson Harrison against Strauss & Steinliardt as partners, to recover damages for the defendants’ alleged wrongful act in receiving and selling six bales of cotton, on which plaintiff claimed a statutory lien as landlord, of which lien they had notice; and was commenced on the 24th October, 1885. The cotton was raised by one Grant, during the year 1885, on lands…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Butler. Tried before the Hon. John P. Hubbard. This action was brought by Williamson Harrison against Strauss & Steinliardt as partners, to recover damages for the defendants’ alleged wrongful act in receiving and selling six bales of cotton, on which plaintiff claimed a statutory lien as landlord, of which lien they had notice; and was commenced on the 24th October, 1885. The cotton was raised by one Grant, during the year 1885, on lands which had belonged to him, and which he had conveyed to the plaintiff by mortgage dated December 31st, 1883, in which his…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
The action is brought by appellee, to recover damages for the defeat of his lien as landlord on six bales of cotton, purchased by the defendants from Joseph Grant. The sole contestation is, whether the relation of landlord and tenant existed between the plaintiff and Grant. On December 31, 1883, Grant and wife executed to the plaintiff a mortgage on personal and real property, to secure an indebtedness therein. described. ■ The real property included, in addition to other land, the homestead of the mortgagor, which he *had owned, and been in possession of since 1866, and was occupying as a…
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