Henderson v. Zachry & Overby
Henderson v. Zachry & Overby
Opinion of the Court
On the 29th of August, 1873, B. F. Carr made and ex. ecuted to J. T. Henderson, as trustee for Mary E. Carr, a deed of gift to certain lands therein described, for the sole and separate use of the said Mary E. Carr, wife of the said B. F. Carr; for and during her natural life, and after her death to such children as she might leave living at the time of her death, share and share alike, with power to
Mary E. Carr and her husband continued in the occupation and possession of said land, and in the year 1885, rented the same to W. F. Wilson and to one Dozier. Helms was the agent of Henderson, the trustee, to procure supplies and fertilizers for the tenants. The tenants carried him the rent cotton, or the value of it, and he applied the same to the payment of the supplies and guano. Wilson testified that he delivered the crops to Mr. Helms, all except one bale of cotton, which he delivered to Judge Carr, the husband of Mary E. Carr. This bale of cotton, and certain number of bushels of corn, a certain quantity of fodder, cotton-seed and seed cotton in the field, were levied on by a fi. fa. obtained by Zachry & Overby against Mary E. Carr. A claim was filed by Henderson, trustee, who claimed it as his property as trustee, and not the property of Mrs. Carr. Upon the trial of the claim, the jury, under the charge of the court, found the property subject. A motion was made for a new trial on the several grounds therein, which was overruled by the court, and the claimant excepted.
It was argued here that it would be a great hardship to allow these judgments against Mrs. Carr to come in and take the proceeds of the land before the expenses of making the crop were paid. We have looked through this record carefully and do not find that the question was made in the court below. There were no pleadings nor evidence setting up or going to show that the expenses of raising the crop had not been paid, or that Henderson or Helms, his agent, who made the arrangement for supplies and fertilizers, had not received a sufficiency to pay lor the supplies and fertilizers; but on the contrary, Mr. Helms, the agent of Henderson, testified that the rent was paid to him and he applied it in payment of these expenses, and paid over a part thereof to Mrs. Carr. Mrs. Carr, being in possession of the land and making the contracts for the rent thereof, was, we think, the landlord, and was entitled to her part of the crops made on said farm; and the court did not err, under this state of facts, in charging the jury that if this property was raised on the plantation of Mrs. Carr, they would be authorized to find it subject.
Judgment affirmed.
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