Allen v. Bonner

This is an appeal from an adverse judgment against appellant upon his suit for recovery on a promissory note.

Appellant sued upon a note and asked for a foreclosure of a mortgage lien on one span of mules. The appellee answered that he had delivered appellant certain cotton, ■with the request that he apply the same to the payment of the mule note first, and that the cotton was worth more than enough to pay same. Appellant replied that he had a lien upon the cotton as landlord for rents, and by a certain written contract owned the cotton delivered to him by appellee; that he did not waive his…