Souter v. Cravy

1. The fundamental distinction between the relationships of landlord and cropper and landlord and tenant is in the fact that the status of cropper is that of a laborer who has agreed to work for and under the landlord' for a certain proportion of the crop as wages, but who does not thereby acquire any dominion or control over the premises upon which such labor is to be performed, the cropper having the right merely to enter and remain thereupon for the purpose of performing his engagement; whereas a tenant does not occupy the status of a laborer, but under such a contract acquires possession,…