Gardner v. Smith

1. Notwithstanding a landlord, after his cropper has, on account of sickness, been rendered unable to malee the crop and bring it to-maturity, takes from the cropper a mule, without which the cropper, even if able to work, could not have made a crop, the failure of the cropper to complete his contract and make a crop is due to the cropper’s own inability caused by sickness, and not to the act of the landlord in depriving the cropper of the use of the mule. This is true notwithstanding, after the landlord had taken the mule, the cropper, through the assistance of neighbors, might have been…