Holmes v. Payne

This is a suit brought by a landlord to enjoin the sale by the sheriff under a writ of fi. fa. of a certain lot of cotton and corn grown by a “sharecropper” on plaintiff’s plantation in the year 1923.

There was judgment for the plaintiff, the landlord, decreeing him to be the owner of the crops seized and restraining the sheriff from proceding with the sale; from which judgment the defendants appealed.

OPINION

Wiley Hall lived on and cultivated á part of plaintiff’s plantation .in the year 1923 under an agreement with, the owner of the land that said land owner should furnish the land, a house…