Wallis v. Watson

Jenkins, Justice.

“If one tenant in common receives more than his share of the rents and profits, he is liable therefor as agent or bailee of the other cotenant.” Code, §§ 85-1004, 85-1001, 85-1003. Where in a proper case equity has taken jurisdiction of a proceeding for the partition of land, as on the instant petition for partition and other equitable relief, and where one of the parties, tenants in common, has excluded the other from his proper share of the rents and profits of the property, equity will also adjust their accounts as to such rents and profits. Thompson v. Sanders, 113 Ga.…