Hall v. Shannon
Hall v. Shannon
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the eourt.
Shannon, the plaintiff in error, sued Jeptha L. Wihle, in attachment, which was levied on some wheat in shocks. Hall, the defendant in error, claiming the wheat, interpleaded.
Simpson Mays died possessed of the land which produced the wheat, and his administrator, with the consent of his widow, leased it from year to year. Hall rented the land for a year ending the first of March, 1851; this he continued to do until March, 1858. In the summer of 1851, the widow of Mays intermarried with Wihle, the defendant in the attachment. The administrator continued to manage the land, notwithstanding this marriage. In the autumn of 1851, Hall gave leave to Wihle to sow a part of the land in wheat, which he did. Wihle afterwards parted with his wife, and during the winter following, left the country and has not been since heard of. The permission to sow was given before Hall had renewed his lease for the year 1852. Hall, under his renewed lease, reaped the crop in 1852, which is the subject of this controversy. The plaintiff in the attachment asked the following instructions, which were refused:
1. If the jury believe from the evidence, that Simpson Mays owned the farm upon which the crop of wheat in question was grown, that he died on the same, leaving a widow, to whom no
2. If the jury find from the evidence, that Mrs. Wihle was the widow of Simpson Mays, deceased; that he owned the farm upon which the wheat was grown, and died on said farm ; that since his death, dower in the same has not been assigned his said widow, and that the term for which plaintiff had rented it ended on the first of March, 1852, then she, in her right, as widow of Simpson Mays, deceased, was entitled to the rent of the farm and to possession thereof, upon the termination of plaintiff’s tenancy, to-wit, 1st March, 1852, and all his right, in this regard, vested in Wihle, immediately upon the marriage, and they will, therefore, find the wheat to be the property of said Wihle. There was a judgment for Hall, the interpleader.
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- Hall, in Error v. Shannon, in Error
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