Hammock v. Wright & Shaw
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Circuit Court, Franklin County-; C. B. Almon, Judge. Detinue and trover by Wright & Shaw against W. F. Hammock. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals. The landlord’s lien was superior to the mortgage under which plaintiff claimed. Section 4734, Code 1907; 130 Ala. 395, 30 South. 443 ; 4 Ala.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Franklin County-; C. B. Almon, Judge. Detinue and trover by Wright & Shaw against W. F. Hammock. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals. The landlord’s lien was superior to the mortgage under which plaintiff claimed. Section 4734, Code 1907; 130 Ala. 395, 30 South. 443 ; 4 Ala. App. 312. 58 South. 115. In any event he was the bailee of the sheriff. 163 Ala. 320, 50 South. 1003; 99 Ala. 573, 12 South. 410; 158 Ala. 123, 48 South. 492; section 4103, Code 1907.
1Opinion of the CourtMerritt, J.
The appellees in this case instituted an action in detinue against the appellant for the recovery of a mule, the complaint being in Code form; and the appellant did not file the plea of the general issue or non detinet, hut filed a special plea, claiming in substance that he was the landlord of his son, James Hammock, and as such had purchased for him to make a crop with two mules; that James Hammock had traded or exchanged one of these mules for the mule in controversy; that James Hammock had never paid him for the two mules sold him; that thereafter the defendant filed suit in attachment at…
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