Fuqua v. Madewell

This is a suit by the lessee against the lessor for damages for breach of a rental contract of a farm on a sharecropping basis.

The defendant pleaded the general issue of not guilty.

The case was tried by the judge and a jury.

Tbe defense was that the lessee had released the contract, or discharged the lessor from liability, which was denied by the plaintiff.

The jury returned a verdict of $325 in favor of the plaintiff Made-well against Fuqua, and judgment was entered accordingly, upon which judgment counsel for the plaintiff below was permitted, upon motion, to assert a lien for their…