Bryant v. Pugh
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trover. Croppers. Master and servant. Landlord and tenant. Charge of court. Practice. Before Judge Meyerhardt. City court of Floyd county. June term, 1890. Pugh sued Bryant in trover for 4,381 pounds of seed-cotton and 31 bushels of corn, worth $150. The evidence for the plaintiff tended to show the following: He rented a farm from defendant during 1889, and was to pay defendant one third of the corn, one fourth of the cotton and all the cotton-seed grown on the place.
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Trover. Croppers. Master and servant. Landlord and tenant. Charge of court. Practice. Before Judge Meyerhardt. City court of Floyd county. June term, 1890. Pugh sued Bryant in trover for 4,381 pounds of seed-cotton and 31 bushels of corn, worth $150. The evidence for the plaintiff tended to show the following: He rented a farm from defendant during 1889, and was to pay defendant one third of the corn, one fourth of the cotton and all the cotton-seed grown on the place. A part of this farm was worked by Caruth and a part by Graves. Plaintiff’s contract with them was, that he would furnish the…
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
The facts of this case will be found in the official report. Under these facts we think Caruth and Graves were not tenants of Pugh, but croppers. The relationship between them and Pugh was not that of landlord and tenant, but was that of master and servant. Pugh retained control and direction of the farm, and Caruth and Graves worked it under his direction; and they were to receive a part of the crop as wages for their labor. The relation not being that of landlord and tenant, but that of cropper, it follows as a matter of course that Caruth and Graves, the croppers, had no…
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