Matthews v. Morris

English, Ch. J.:

Wm. I). Morris sued George W. Matthews before a justice of the peace of Phillips County, on a claim of $125 for rent of about thirty acres of cleared land, for the year 1875, on a tract known as the Bailey place, described as the northwest quarter .section 19, township 1 south, range 2 east, etc. Upon an affidavit in support of the demand, and that defendant had removed part of the crop from the premises, an attachment ivas issued, .and levied on corn and cotton grown on the place.

• The defense of the defendant was, that the laud belonged to his wife, and that he had not…