33 Tex. Civ. App. 128 - Allen v. Brunner’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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1. “The other contention of appellant is that, because the current contract year ended on May 1, 1902, and the attachment was levied on February 22, 1902, the landlord could not assert a lien for any time after May 1, 1902, and, as all rent was paid to that time, judgment should have been rendered for appellant. Appellant relies upon article 3251 of the Revised Statutes to support this view. As we understand, the effect of this article is to prevent a landlord from ever asserting a claim for more than one year's rent to become due in the future; that is, no matter how many years may be covered by the rental contract, the lien can only be enforced for a period up to the end of the current contract year. It does not prevent the making of a lease for more than one year; but it divides such a contract, so far as the lien is concerned, into a series of yearly contracts, and, when the tenant has occupied the premises for any part of any of said series of years, the landlord has a lien for the balance of such year.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Low v. Troy Laundry MacHinery Co.