City Council of Greenville v. White

The question presented here for decision is the ownership of 88 bales of seed cotton and 550 bushels of com, harvested by the appellee from land which the appellant had recently leased to the federal government as a site for the location and construction of a United States Army Airport without expressly reserving, under the terms of the written lease or otherwise, the growing crops thereon, and which leased premises were then being expeditiously converted to such use.

The material facts are not in dispute. The City Council of Greenville, acting pursuant to legislative authority, purchased…