Hardee v. Myakka Fruit Farms Co.

In a distress for rent' proceedings brought in the County Court by the corporation against A. G. Knight, property was levied upon, and a forthcoming bond was executed by A. G. Knight as principal and J. P. Hardee and E. D. Scrogin as sureties, conditioned that the defendant “A. G. Knight shall have the said property forthcoming” on April 1, 1919.

At the trial a jury was sworn to determine what “rent or advances is due the plaintiff and the value of the same. ’ ’ The jury merely found “for the plaintiff.” Thereupon *629judgment was rendered “that'the said Myakka Fruit Company, a corporation,…