Wheless v. . Edwards

The controversy is simplified by the admission of the parties, as stated in the charge, that if the relation of landlord and tenant existed between Edwards and Jones on 5 March, 1923, the cotton in question is -the property of the defendants and if such relation did not exist the cotton is the property of the plaintiff. The answer to the first issue depended upon a determination of this question. In reference to the issue his Honor instructed the jury that the burden was on the plaintiff to prove by the greater weight of the evidence that Jones was in possession of the land under a contract…