Schlicht v. Callicott

Citations

• 76 Miss. 487

Syllabus

<p>1. Landlord and Tenant. Attachment for rent or supplies. Amendment of proceedings. Code 1893, § 2531.</p> <p>Under code 1892, § 2531, providing' therefor, the proceedings in a landlord's attachment for rent or supplies may be amended.</p> <p>2. Same. Contract CD'eating the relationship.</p> <p>A contract providing that one of the parties is to furnish the other a dwelling house for himself and family, with adjacent lands, and with teams and utensils, and that such other is to cultivate the land and pay cme-half the crop for the use of the property, creates the relation of landlord and tenant between the parties.</p> <p>3. Same. Supreme court. Amount-in controversy. Jvrisdiction. Code 1892, l 85.</p> <p>The jurisdiction of the siipreme ecrart, under code 1892, § 85, of an issue made before a justice of the peace, under code 1892, § 2528, after seizure under a landlord’s attachment for rent or supplies, is determinable, on his appeal, by the sum for which he might have obtained judgment, there having- been no trial on the merits in the circuit court.</p>