Case ID: ga_74/html/0364-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Blandeord, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Johnson et al. vs. Wallace.
    A bill alleged as follows: Complainant sold a horse to one who cultivated land as a tenant, and took a note payable in lint cotton on or before the 15th day of the succeeding October. The note stated that it was “ due next to land rent, agreed to by ” the landlord. This was witnessed by the landlord. The tenant made more on the land than the rent, and paid all of the cotton so raised to the landlord. The tenant is insolvent:
    Held, that there is equity in the bill, and a demurrer thereto was properly overruled.
    Blandfobd, J., dissenting.
    Judgment affirmed.
    December 21, 1884.
   Blandeord, Justice.

[To the report contained in the head-note, it is only necessary to add that the object of the bill was to require the landlord to deliver the cotton received by her, in excess of the payment of rent, or to pay its value, to be applied to the settlement of complainant’s claim.]