Payne v. Watters
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages — demurrer; from city court of Floyd county —Judge Nunnally. September 27, 1910.
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
1. Where by contract the relation of landlord and cropper exists' for a certain year, and, after the cropper has performed the greater portion of the work, the landlord, without cause, refuses to allow him to go forward and complete the labor essential to the cultivation and1 harvesting of the crops, and compels him to leave the premises, the cropper may maintain an action of tort against the landlord, and may recover such damages as flowed to him through the landlord’s wrongful act; and it is proper, in a suit brought for such a wrong, that the plaintiff should set up the value of the crops…
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