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It is true the renter of land and the party furnishing stock to work it- are entitled to give consideration- but they should not be permitted by any superior management of theirs in compliance with civil law created as above stated be permitted to take the entire results of a years labor to the entire exclusion of prospect of the labor for the provisions and supplies which sustained that labor & stock.-

I give you the following case and appeal to you for justice for myself and the laborers.-I can do nothing in the matter by civil law.-

M M & G R Griggs rented a place in Russell County Ala last January for $1600.- They came to me in March to mortgage the coop