Legal Opinion

Campbell v. Hatchett

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 15, 1876PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Appeal from the Chancery Court of Elmore. Heard before tbe Hon. Chables Tubnee. Tbe bib. in tbis case was filed on tbe 22d October, 1874, by W. T. Hatchett, against A. G. Campbell, David Campbell, Archie Campbell, and E. H. Mann; and sought to reform a written lease executed between said Hatchett and A. G. OampbeU, and to enforce tbe complainant’s statutory lien, as landlord, on tbe crop grown on tbe leased lands during tbe year 1874. A. G. OampbeU sub-rented the lands, for…

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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Elmore. Heard before tbe Hon. Chables Tubnee. Tbe bib. in tbis case was filed on tbe 22d October, 1874, by W. T. Hatchett, against A. G. Campbell, David Campbell, Archie Campbell, and E. H. Mann; and sought to reform a written lease executed between said Hatchett and A. G. OampbeU, and to enforce tbe complainant’s statutory lien, as landlord, on tbe crop grown on tbe leased lands during tbe year 1874. A. G. OampbeU sub-rented the lands, for a portion of tbe term, to said E. H. Mann, wbo occupied and cultivated them, and executed to said A. G. Campbell bis…

1Opinion of the Court

BRICKELL, C. J. —

The bill is filed by the appellee, for the reformation of a written lease, made and entered into by him as lessor, with the appellant, A. G. Campbell, as lessee, of a described tract of land, for a term of three years, commencing in January, 1872, and expiring in January, 1875. The rent stipulated for in the lease is fifteen hundred dollars, payable in two equal annual installments, of seven hundred and fifty dollars each, on the first days of November, 1872, and 1873, and two hundred and twenty-five bushels of corn, deliverable in quantities of seventy-five bushels, on the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. English v. KeySupreme Court of Alabama · 1863

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Holland Blow Stave Co. v. BarclaySupreme Court of Alabama · 1915
  2. Consumers Coal & Fuel Co. v. YarbroughSupreme Court of Alabama · 1915
  3. Dexter v. OhlanderSupreme Court of Alabama · 1891
  4. Webb v. SprottSupreme Court of Alabama · 1932
  5. Hand v. CoxSupreme Court of Alabama · 1910

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