Sargent v. Courrier

The corn in dispute, levied on by the appellant as constable, under Blanchard’s execution, and replevied by appellee, was not his property, but the property of his tenant, who had raised it, his rent not going to him until the corn was gathered and divided, appellee to have two-fifths and the tenant three-fifths.

Appellee’s share had at no time been set off to him, and, by the contract, it was to be gathered and delivered to him in his cribs over the line in Stark county. He had no ownership of it while standing in the field, ungathered. Nor had he, in any view of the case, a right to more…