Jones v. Webster
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal bom tbe Circuit Court of Hale. Tried before Hon. M. J. Saeeold. Tbe facts are sufficiently stated in tbe opinion,
1Opinion of the CourtB. F. Saffold, J.
The appeal is from a judgment of non-suit taken in consequence of the adverse rulings of the court in its charges to the jury. The first count of the complaint is for the conversion of one hundred and thirty-nine bales of cotton, in the form prescribed by the Code for the conversion of chattels. There were other counts in case.
The appellant’s intestate, William A. Jones, rented his plantation, called the Stephens place, to H. H. & T. J. Happel, for three years from the 1st of January, 1867. To secure the rent, they executed a mortgage to him on all of the crops of cotton to be grown on, the…
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