Amason v. Harrigan

D. D. Harrigan owns a 400-acre farm in Frio county, which he rented to J. T. Amason for the crop year of 1925-26, upon the usual “third and fourth” basis. The crop will amount to “probably more than 12 bales of cotton,” and “other crops,” the nature and extent of which is not disclosed in the record.

Early in the crop season Harrigan advanced $1,000 to Amason to be used in aid of thfe farming operations, for which Amason' gave Harrigan his, two promissory notes, each for $500, due respectively on September 1 and October 1-, 1926, together with a chattel mortgage upon 2 horses and 18 mules,…