Grisham Butane Gas Co. v. Mason

During the crop year of 1953, Thomas B. Mason and E. T. Mason, his father, made a crop of rice, jointly, on the farm belonging to J. L. Hays. They had made a rice crop on this same land in 1952. They agreed to pay Hays, their landlord, one-fourth of all rice produced. The present litigation was begun by appellant, Grisham Butane Gas Co., suing Thomas B. Mason on account for $1,209.11 for gas used, and Arkansas Rice Grower’s Cooperative Association, Delta Production Credit Association and Poinsett Production Credit Association were made garnishees. $1,707.97 derived from the 1953 crop grown by…