Gaines v. Keeton
Mississippi Supreme Court
Feom the chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. Sylvanus Evans, Chancellor. Section 1301, code 1880, provides as follows:— “ Every lessor of land shall have a lien on all the agricultural products of the leased premises, however and by whomsoever produced, to secure the payment of the rent, and the fair market value of all advances made by him to his tenant, for supplies for the tenant and others for whom he paay contract, and for his business carried on upon the leased…
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Feom the chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. Sylvanus Evans, Chancellor. Section 1301, code 1880, provides as follows:— “ Every lessor of land shall have a lien on all the agricultural products of the leased premises, however and by whomsoever produced, to secure the payment of the rent, and the fair market value of all advances made by him to his tenant, for supplies for the tenant and others for whom he paay contract, and for his business carried on upon the leased premises; and this lien shall be paramount to all other liens, claims or demands of any kind upon such products; and the…
1Opinion of the CourtCoopek, J.
If the correctness of the propositions of law argued by counsel for complainants be conceded, we think the decree of the chancellor *477should, nevertheless, be affirmed. Not content to rest the security of their demand against their tenant upon the provisions of law by which a lien was given, they carved out and required another and apparently inconsistent security, which, on its face, secured a trust-deed to a third person, whose agency for the landlords was not disclosed by the instrument.
It is not necessary for the decision of the present controversy to hold, as do some courts, that the mere…
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