4 Ga. App. 264 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1908
The questions in this case arise on a rule to distribute money in the hands of the sheriff, realized from the sale of personal property of the defendant. Stubbs & Co. claimed the fund by virtue of an execution based on the foreclosure of a mortgage on the crops of the defendant, which mortgage had been given to them to secure advances to make the crops. Ella C. Wad-dell claimed the money for rent, the defendant being her tenant of the premises on which the crops were made. The jury found a verdict in her favor; and Stubbs & Co. filed a motion for a new trial, which was overruled.
On the trial of the ease, it was conceded by Stubbs & Co. that the claim of Mrs. Waddell for rent was prior in law' to the fi. fa. held by them based on-the mortgage for supplies; but they insisted that two thirds of the claim for rent had been paid by the tenant. The entire amount of rent which the tenant had agreed to pay Mrs. Waddell for the farm was 1,500 pounds of lint cotton, and Stubbs & Co. claimed that all but 536 pounds of this lint cotton had been paid to Mrs. Waddell by the tenant, on the rent; and this amount of 536 pounds they tendered to Mrs. Waddell. The correctness of this contention is to be determined by the application of the proceeds of two bales of cotton which it is conceded tile tenant had delivered to Mrs. Waddell* It is insisted that these two bales were delivered on the rent, and that if applied in payment of the rent, they would have reduced the balance due on this account to 536 pounds of lint cotton. Mrs. Waddell insisted, that these two bales were not applied in payment of the rent, but to the payment of a-note for $75, which amount she, as landlord, had advanced to her tenant, under the statute, to make a drop for that year, and that her right as a landlord for these ad
Much stress is laid by the plaintiffs in error on the fact that the $75 note given to the bank for the money furnished to Smith was
The judge, in his charge, which is excepted to, we think aptly covered the law on this controlling question, when he told the jury, “if you believe that John O. Waddell was acting as agent for his wife in furnishing Smith, her tenant, with the $75 received from the 'Commercial Bank, then I charge you that she would have a lien superior to the mortgage of A. W. Stubbs & Co., and it would make no difference whether she applied the two bales of cotton received to the lien for the money furnished, or to the rent due her. I charge you she would have a right to apply it to either lien.” The case of Cofer v. Benson, 92 Ga. 793 (19 S. E. 56), relied upon by the plaintiff in error, is distinguished from the one at bar on its
IVe find no error of law committed by the court, and the verdict Is supported by the evidence. Judgment affirmed.