Knox v. Hunt & Porter
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, Si. Louis Circuit Court. Hunt was entitled to a lien on the crop for the rent accruing • for the year, or at least for so much thereof as properly represented the farming lands, and the court ought not to have excluded the evidence that would have established the amount thereof. The letter of the law is not inconsistent with this view, and there is no difficulty in practice under it.
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Appeal from, Si. Louis Circuit Court. Hunt was entitled to a lien on the crop for the rent accruing • for the year, or at least for so much thereof as properly represented the farming lands, and the court ought not to have excluded the evidence that would have established the amount thereof. The letter of the law is not inconsistent with this view, and there is no difficulty in practice under it. The amount o£ the rent is uncertain, and must be liquidated by proof ; but this is the case, in many instances, with all liens. The buildfer must show the amount of his demand. The claimant on…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
This was an action of trespass de bonis asportatis, commenced by the plaintiff, Knox, against the defendants, Hunt and Porter, in October, 1848. There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.
On the 9th July, 1847, Hunt, the defendant, leased to E. K. Bodge his farm in St. Louis county, with all the coal mines in and upon the same, then opened or to be thereafter opened, for the term of six years, to commence from the date of the lease, for the sum of seven thousand dollars ; one thousand dollars of which was to be paid on or before the 15th July, 1847; *245three thousand dollars on the first…
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