Masson v. Murray

Plaintiff brought suit against the defendant, Murray, for six bales of cotton, of five hundred pounds each, and two hundred bushels of corn, or their value, as the rent of a plantation iu the parish of Natchitoches for the year 1866, and caused the crop to be sequestered. D. R. Carroll & Co. intervened claiming $1995 09, with interest, and privilege on the crop for supplies' furnished to the plantation during the said year and averred that the rent should he reduced because the crop was reduced by the overflow of the Red river — a providential act. The defendant confessed judgment iu favor of…