Butt v. Story

When this case was here before, it appeared, that Mrs. Story had a life-estate in certain lands; that in January, 1905, she rented them to the defendant, her son, Jesse Story, and took for the rent his negotiable promissory note; that she died February 20, 1905, before the crops were sown, but that prior to her death she transferred the rent note to a third person, to whom Jesse Story paid the same in the fall of 1905. It further appeared that on the death of Mrs. Story, Butt, the plaintiff, bought the remainder-estate, and in the fall sued out a distress warrant against Jesse Story for the…