71 Miss. 774 | Miss. | 1894
delivered the opinion of the court.
The deed of trust was not void for uncertainty in the de
The contract in the alternative, for sale or rent, was, it is true, a verbal one; but this suit originated in the attachment for rent, which was only an effort to enforce appellee’s rights, according to his theory, under the verbal contract of rent? and there was no error in allowing evidence to show fully what the real agreement between appellee and the Reeveses was. The subsequent writings said by the appellee to have been executed by them, were, on the part of the Reeveses, an agreement to pay rent, and, on appellee’s part, a modification of the original contract, by which Robinson stipulated to receive six instead of eight bales as first installment of the purchase-price under the sale contract, in consideration of the Reeveses paying interest on the value of the two bales which they might not be able to deliver in pursuance of the contract to buy. The second and third assignments of error are, therefore, not well taken.
The second instruction of defendant was erroneous, and we are at a loss to conjecture on what ground it was thought proper. The counsel for defendant below make no comment on this point, and thus seem to decline to support this ruling of the court below.
The fourth charge given for defendant was not error. Section 2581, code of 1892, introduces no new rule as to the burden of proof in the cases therein spoken of. The section is merely declaratory of what was already the law in this state.
The second and third instructions asked by plaintiff below were properly refused. Though the specially deputized constable’s dealing with the attached property was irregular,
Reversed and remanded.