McLemore v. Treadway

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Quin

Reversing.

Appellants owned a farm of 158 acres, 115 acres of which they rented to appellee in March, 1919. Under the lease 20 acres of the land were to be planted in tobacco, of which the parties were leach entitled to one-half; for the remainder of the acreage appellee agreed to pay $1,000 as rent March 1, 1920.

Under the assumption they were about to lose their rent, appellants, through their agent, filed an affidavit upon which an attachment was issued and this was levied on the tenant’s one-half interest in the tobacco, which had been removed by him from…