Durant v. Home Bank

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Cothran.

Action for damages for the conversion of certain crops, seized under a crop mortgage given by the husband of the owner of certain lands. The plaintiff, a share cropper of the husband, claimed that the crop seized had been set off to him as his share, or that he had a statutory lien as such share cropper or laborer upon it, for his share. Verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant-appeals.

The facts were these: During the year 1920, one Josephine Brown was the owner of a tract of land in Barnwell County. It was cultivated, as was…