Batton v. Jones

Hart, J.,

(after stating the facts). It is earnestly insisted by counsel for the defendant that the judgment should be reversed, because the weight of the evidence showed that, under the custom of the country, the words, “subject to the-usual overflow clause,” meant that, in case the land was overflowed, the tenant would pay a part of the crop for rent on the overflowed land and the average price per acre in cash for the land that was not overflowed.

It does not make any difference where the weight of the evidence on this point was. It is sufficient to say that there was testimony on the part…