Wofford v. Hooper

The bill was filed to impound and subject to the satisfaction of • a magistrate’s judgment a small crop of tobacco raised by Lee Hooper, a tenant working on shares on the farm of his father, Fred Hooper. The defendant Fred Hooper sets up a lien under the statute,' Shannon’s Code, section 5305, providing that land owners “shall have a lien on the crops raised on such lands by share-croppers for supplies, implements, and work stock furnished such croppers,” etc.

The chancellor sustained the bill, and gave judgment in favor of complainant for the use of one Boswell, but provided that from the…