Woodson v. McLaughlin
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Third Division; A. F. House, Judge; STATEMENT OE FACTS. J. P. Woodson and Mrs. Mollie Woodson, his wife, •brought this action in the circuit court against C. L. McLaughlin and M. W. Davis, and for cause of action states that said defendants wrongfully, maliciously, and forcibly compelled them to remove from a tenant house on the farm of McLaughlin which they were occupying while gathering a crop on said farm.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Third Division; A. F. House, Judge; STATEMENT OE FACTS. J. P. Woodson and Mrs. Mollie Woodson, his wife, •brought this action in the circuit court against C. L. McLaughlin and M. W. Davis, and for cause of action states that said defendants wrongfully, maliciously, and forcibly compelled them to remove from a tenant house on the farm of McLaughlin which they were occupying while gathering a crop on said farm. J. P. Woodson was a witness for himself. According to his testimony, in 1919 he was a share cropper on the farm of McLaughlin. McLaughlin furnished…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
(after stating the facts). The decision the court was right. According to the plaintiff’s own testimony, J. F. Woodson was a share cropper on McLaughlin’s farm. He was to cultivate and gather the crop for one-half of it, and McLaughlin allowed him to occupy a tenant house on the farm in order to cultivate and gather the crop. This constituted the relation of landlord and laborer, and not that of landlord and tenant. Bourland v. McKnight, 79 Ark. 427.
It appears from Woodson’s own testimony that the title to the crop was to remain in McLaughlin until the latter divided it and gave the former…
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