Kiker v. Jones

Where a landowner enters into a contract with •another person, by the terms of which the owner is to furnish the land, stock, tools, and supplies to make a crop, and the other person is to do the labor and receive a part of the crop so made, the legal relation which exists between them is thsft of landlord and cropper. Appling v. Odom, 46 Ga. 583; Hancock v. Boggus, 111 Ga. 884 (2) (36 S. E. 970). The person employed to work for a part of the crop under such a contract is a cropper, and '“the title to the crop, subject to the interest of the cropper therein, and the possession of the land,…