Vest v. First Joint Stock Land Bank

BROWN, Justice.

This appeal is by the claimant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff on the trial of the right of property in two bales of cotton seized under a writ of attachment issued at the instance of the landlord against its tenant for the enforcement of the lien for rent provided for by section 8799 of the Code 1923.

The attachment was levied on the cotton in the possession of the claimant, after its removal from the rented premises by the tenant.

After the levy, the claimant interposed his claim as authorized by section 10375 of the Code, 1923, stating in his affidavit “that he…