Deaver v. . Rice

The plaintiff leased a tract of land to one Ruth for the term of one year, to wit, the year 1836; and the lessee, instead of a money rent, agreed to give the lessor one-third of the grain made on (568) the land, if he worked it well; if not, then five hundred bushels of corn. The lessee entered and made a crop on the land. At July Term, 1836, of Buncombe County Court, a judgment was obtained against the lessee, and an execution issued tested of the same term; and in October following, the sheriff levied the same on a filed of corn standing on the demised premises, as the lessee's property,…