Hereford Cattle Co. v. Powell

This suit was brought by defendant in error E.M. Powell upon a rent contract, for the sum of $4021.28, for certain pasture lands, and a writ of attachment was sued out and levied upon the property of plaintiff in error for that amount. Upon the trial there was a recovery by plaintiff below, from which this writ of error is prosecuted.

The following statement of the facts in the brief of defendant in error is adopted: On June 12, 1886, the plaintiff rented to the defendant company the ranch, Almyra, for an annual rental of $2400 in money and $800 of the stock of the company, to be paid by the…