Patterson v. Hawkins
Patterson v. Hawkins
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a proceeding by original attachment, claiming defendant is indebted to the plaintiff in the sum
The facts are, plaintiff rented land to defendant for the year 1874, and was to receive as rent one-third of the crop. The corn crop proved a failure, the-cotton crop was three bales, which, under the judgment of the court, plaintiff gets, or its equivalent, the-proceeds thereof, it having been sold. The court gave-this judgment as for rent, estimating what should -have-been made by good husbandry on the land.
This judgment is erroneous. By secs. 3539-41 of the Code, any debt by note, account, or otherwise, created for rent of land, is a lien on the crop growing or made on the premises, in preference to all other debts,, from the date of the contract, and continues for three months after the debt becomes due, and until the termination of any suit commenced within that time for the rent. This lien may be enforced by original attachment, issued on affidavit that the rent is due and-unpaid, or defendant about to remove or sell the crop, or by judgment at law against the tenant, and execution to be levied on the crop in whosesoever hands-it may be.
It does not admit of- argument that this remedy-by attachment is not given on the basis contended for by the plaintiff. Whatever may be his rights in an action on the case for failure to comply with the express or implied contract for good husbandry on the part of the tenant, it is certain the damages for such
Eeverse the judgment and remand.
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