Houston v. Witherspoon

Citations

• 68 Miss. 190

Syllabus

<p>Estoppel. Landlord and tenant. Suit for rent.</p> <p>A landlord in Kentucky was led to believe by the tenant on her plantation in Mississippi that he was unable to pay rent due without selling his mules. She wrote him consenting to await another crop for the rent. In truth, he had raised crops sufficient to pay the rent, a portion of which, in value exceeding the rent, he had delivered to merchants on a supply-account, they knowing of the landlord’s lien. Without her knowledge, he showed them her letter, and on the faith of it they gave him further credit. The rent was not paid, and the landlord sued the merchants for the value of the crops received. Held, that she was not estopped by her letter, she having done nothing to mislead defendants, and not knowing her rights when she wrote.</p>