American Cotton Co. v. Phillips

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

Appellee brought this suit against W. L. Queen to recover $123, alleged to be due by him for rent of a farm of appellee’s cultivated by said Queen as appellee’s tenant for the year 1901, and for supplies furnished the said Queen by appellee to enable him to make a crop upon said farm. The American Cotton Company was made a party defendant, and recovery sought against it for the value of five bales of cotton alleged to have been converted by said company and upon which plaintiff claimed a landlord’s lien to secure the payment of the amount due her by said Queen.

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