Pape v. Steward
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Crawford Circuit Court, Jepittha II. Evans, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The Union Central Life Insurance Company was in 1896 the owner or in control of a farm in Crawford county of this state. It rented the farm during that year to one Hauptman for $140, and Hauptman sub-rented a part of the farm to Sam Lyons.
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Appeal from Crawford Circuit Court, Jepittha II. Evans, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The Union Central Life Insurance Company was in 1896 the owner or in control of a farm in Crawford county of this state. It rented the farm during that year to one Hauptman for $140, and Hauptman sub-rented a part of the farm to Sam Lyons. But J.' R. Steward also claimed to be the owner of this 'farm, and in the fall of that year he brought suit against -Hauptman and Lyons before a justice of the peace-to recover for the rent. On the 39'th of September, 1896, he obtained a judgment for the amount claimed by…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts). This is an action of replevin for two bales of cotton brought by Sam Steward, who purchased the cotton from a sub-tenant of the Union Central Life Insurance Company, whose rent had not been paid. The defendant is a sheriff, who had seized the cotton under a writ of attachment issued in an action brought by the company to recover its rent. There is no question here as to validity of the company’s lien as against the sub-tenant, but the plaintiff, Steward, claims that he purchased the cotton without notice of the lien. On this question the jury found in…
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