{
  "id": 1373903,
  "name": "Earl Bros. & Company v. Smith",
  "name_abbreviation": "Earl Bros. v. Smith",
  "decision_date": "1925-10-12",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "525",
  "last_page": "526",
  "citations": [
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "169 Ark. 525"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ark.",
    "id": 8808,
    "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 34,
    "name_long": "Arkansas",
    "name": "Ark."
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T23:00:38.667503+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "Earl Bros. & Company v. Smith."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Humphreys, J.\nAppellant and appellee each rented J. F. and W. D. Ramsey a farm to cultivate during the year 1921. The Ramseys executed a chattel mortgage to appellant on the 9th day of March, 1921, covering the crops to be raised on both farms during the year. They failed to pay appellant the indebtedness secured by the mortgage, and suit was brought on the 25th day of October, 1921 against the Ramseys to foreclose the mortgage. In the proceeding, 418 1/3 bushels of corn and 340 pounds of cotton seed was seized and sold by appellant. On the 24th day of January, 1922, appellee filed an intervention in the proceeding, claiming a landlord\u2019s lien for rent and advances on said property for a balance of $329.75. An answer was filed by appellant denying the material allegations in the intervention.\nThe cause was submitted to the court upon the pleadings and testimony, which resulted in a decree against appellant and in favor of appellee for $268.56 and interest, said amount being the value of the com and seed, from which decree an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court.\nThere is no material dispute in the testimony. The Ramseys lived on appellant\u2019s farm, but in the fall they rented and removed to the Fate Linzy place. They rented appellee\u2019s farm another year, and were permitted by him to take apart of the corn and cotton seed they raised on his farm in 1921 to the F\u00edate Linzy farm, where it was stored to be used in mailing their crop in 1922. This was the corn and seed which appellant seized and sold in the foreclosure proceeding. When the sheriff seized it, appellee informed him that he had a landlord\u2019s lien on it and told him not to move it. When seized'by the sheriff, it was of the value of $286.56. The Bamseys owed appellee $791.75 for rents and advances in 1921. They raised ten bales of cotton on Ms farm, and out of the proceeds of the sale thereof, paid him $462, leaving a balance due of $329.75.\nC. T. Grooms, an employee of appellant, and Vernon Nisler, who was with him when they wmnt to the Bamseys to collect the indebtedness secured by the mortgage, testified that appellee told Grooms that he had given the Bamseys the corn grown on Ms farm to make a crop with the next year. Appellant denied making the statement to Grooms, but he and the Bamseys testified that he turned the corn \u00a1and seed over to them to use in mailing ' a crop in 1922.\nAppellant contends for a reversal of the decree on the theory: first, that appellee was estopped to enforce his landlord\u2019s lien because he did not impound the property and have it sold to satisfy the lien, but instead allowed appellant to sell the property under the mortgage lien; and, second, that appellee relinquished his landlord\u2019s lien by permitting the Bamseys to use the corn and seed,to make their crop' the next year.\nWe cannot agree with appellant in either contention. In the first place, appellee did not maintain silence when he should have spoken, but, on the contrary, he informed the sheriff of his landlord\u2019s lien and instructed him not to move the corn and seed; and, in the second place, permission to his tenants to use the corn and seed in making another crop was in no \u00a1sense a waiver of his lien in favor of Bamsey\u2019s creditors. There is nothing in the record squinting at a waiver of his lieu in favor of appellant. Appellee had a perfect right to extend a favor to his tenants without thereby forfeiting Ms paramount lien rights to junior lien holders.\nNo error appearing, the decree is affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Humphreys, J."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Ed Gordon and J. B. Ward, for appellant."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "Earl Bros. & Company v. Smith.\nOpinion delivered October 12, 1925.\nLandlord and tenant \u2014 waiver of lien. \u2014 That a landlord gave permission to his tenant to use corn anid cotton seed on which he had a lien, for rent in making a crop for another year did not constitute a waiver of such lien in favor of a junior lienor.\nAppeal from Pope Chancery Court; W. E. Atkinson, Chancellor;\naffirmed.\nEd Gordon and J. B. Ward, for appellant."
  },
  "file_name": "0525-01",
  "first_page_order": 545,
  "last_page_order": 546
}