Field v. Newburn

Citations

• 91 Miss. 861
• 45 So. 573

Syllabus

<p>Civil Code of Louisiana. Art. 2705. Landlord and tenant. Predial estates. Pledge.</p> <p>Under Civil Code of Louisiana, Art. 2705, giving a lessor, for the payment of rent of predial estates, a right of pledge on the movable effects of the lessee found on the property leased, embracing everything that serves for the labor of the farm, the furniture of the lessee’s house and the fruits produced during the lease:—</p> <p>(а) A lessor has no lien or right of pledge upon a buggy not found on the leased premises nor used in the farm work; and</p> <p>(б) The statutory right cannot be predicated of testimony showing only that the defendant during a preceding lease told the lessor he would lease for the next year.</p>