Welch v. Lindsey

1. An action in trover will lie where the relation of landlord and cropper exists, the title to all the crops on the rented land being in the landlord until there has been an actual division and settlement. Harley v. Davis, 7 Ga. App. 386 (66 S. E. 1102); DeLoach v. Delk, 119 Ga. 884 (47 S. E. 204); Civil Code (1910), §§ 3705, 3706.

2. Where a person who has actual control of land but does not own it contracts as landlord in her individual name with a cropper who, although knowing she has no title to the land, deals with and recognizes her as his landlord, a suit in trover can be maintained by…