Mumme v. Spies

This suit originated in the justice court, where L. W. Mumme and wife sought a distress warrant to recover money in the sum of $259.79, alleged to be due for provisions and advances made to A. J. Spies as their tenant on 50 acres of land to enable him to make a crop. The warrant was executed by the seizure of seven stacks of cane hay and 25 bushels of corn in the ear. The writ was made returnable to the county court, where appellant sought a judgment for their debt and foreclosure of their landlord’s lien. It was alleged that since the suit appellee had been adjudged a bankrupt in the Federal…