Moss v. Moss
Moss v. Moss, administrator
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Atkinson, J.
1. Where an agent authorized to rent land belonging to his principal made a contract in which the rent was payable to himself, and subsequently, claiming the rent adversely to his principal? *270 instituted a distress-warrant proceeding against the tenant to collect the amount thereof, the agent being insolvent, equity will entertain a suit by the principal (or, he being dead, by an administrator upon his estate) to enjoin the agent from collecting the rent.
November 12, 1915. Equitable petition.- Before Judge Wright. Floyd. superior court. July 20, 1914. Henry Walker, for plaintiff in error. McHenry & Porter, contra.
2. The petition was not subject to general demurrer.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur, except Bech, •/., absent.
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