Appling v. Odom
Supreme Court of Georgia
Lien of landlord. Before Judge Harrell. Early Superior Court. April Term, 1872. On the 28th day of November, 1871, Stephen Odom executed a mortgage on all his crop of corn and cotton grown on the plantation of A. J. Mercier, in the county of Early, to secure the payment of a promissory note of same date, payable one day after date, for $270. This mortgage was foreclosed, and on December 6th, 1871, an execution was issued and levied on the following day on five bales of seed…
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Lien of landlord. Before Judge Harrell. Early Superior Court. April Term, 1872. On the 28th day of November, 1871, Stephen Odom executed a mortgage on all his crop of corn and cotton grown on the plantation of A. J. Mercier, in the county of Early, to secure the payment of a promissory note of same date, payable one day after date, for $270. This mortgage was foreclosed, and on December 6th, 1871, an execution was issued and levied on the following day on five bales of seed cotton, more or less, as the property of said Stephen Odom. On February 2d, 1872, a claim was filed to said cotton by A.…
1Opinion of the Court
McCay, Judge.
There is an obvious distinction between a cropper and a tenant. One has a possession of the premises, exclusive of the landlord; the other has not. The one has a right for a *585fixed time; the other has only a right to go on the land to plant, work and gather the.orop. The possession of the land is with the owner as against the cropper. This is not so of the tenant. The case made in the record is not the case of a tenant. The owner of the land furnished the land and the supplies. The share of the cropper was to remain on the land, and to be subject to the advances of the owner for…
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