Horn v. Blackwell

Oxner, J.:

This proceeding was brought by respondent, as landlord, to eject appellant, a tenant, from a farm which appellant was cultivating as a sharecropper. The tenant went into possession of the premises in the fall of 1946. The ejectment proceedings were commenced in the Magistrate’s Court on June 7, 1947. The landlord claimed that the tenant prom isecl to discontinue mill work at the beginning of the crop season, but failed to do so; that he failed to plant the agreed number of acres in various crops; and that he had failed and neglected to cultivate any of the crops in a proper manner.…