Sitton v. Turner

1. The judgment of the court below in this case was affirmed by the Court of Appeals on June 10, 1924 (32 Ga. App. 401, 123 S. E. 750). Certiorari was granted, and the Supreme Court held: (a) “The general lien given by section 3348 of the Civil Code (1910) to the landlord who furnishes to his tenant supplies necessary to make a particular crop is the equivalent, as to goods of the tenant upon which the aforesaid lien is foreclosed in accordance with the provisions of section 4356 of the Code of 1910, to the common-law distress. The lien does not ripen until its foreclosure, but it exists from…