Shaffer v. Stevens

This was an action by appellee for damages, and to enjoin appellant from appropriating to his own use the undivided one-half of a crop of corn raised by him upon about seventeen acres of land.

It appears, as we gather from the record, that one James Gahn, now deceased, during his lifetime, conveyed in fee simple the land in question, together with other land, to one Peyton E. Ballard, subject to a life estate in the said Gahn.

James Gahn died during the latter part of April, or early in. May, 1894. A few days before his death the ■^neighbors planted the corn in dispute. Gahn left no j children.…