King v. Blount

Decided May 15, 1881

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1881-05-15

Hon. J. N. Cypert, Circuit Judge. STATEMENT. This was an action at law by Blount against King & Clop-ton, to recover the proceeds of three bales of cotton, which the complainant alleged they had received from one Mackey, his tenant, in December, 1877, and sold and appropriated to Mackey’s indebtedness to them, with knowledge of his landlord’s lien upon it for rent for that year.

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Decided 1881-05-15

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Harrison, J.

¶1The lien of the landlord continues but for six months after the rent becomes due. Sec, 4098 Gantt’sDigest.

¶2And where there has been a conversion of the crop, or a. portion of it, by one with knowledge of the lien, and it attaches in equity to the proceeds in his hands, its continuance is only for the same period, for equity follows the-law. Valentine v. Hamlett, Ad’r., MS. Opinion.

¶3The suit not having been commenced within six months-after the rent became due, and the lien having expired, no-equity or cause of action was shown in the complaint.

¶4The,decree of the Court below is, therefore, reversed,, and the. complaint dismissed for the want of equity.