Court of Appeals of South Carolina, 1833

State v. Gay

State v. Gay
Court of Appeals of South Carolina · Decided December 15, 1833
19 S.C.L. 364

State v. Gay

Opinion of the Court

One who is entitled to receive a share of the crop, for his services, on the plantation of another, is not a *365joint tenant, or tenant in common with his employer, of the crop produced. It is exclusively the property of the employer, though he has made an executory contract to allow a certain portion of it to the cropper; and the latter may commjt larceny in stealing a part of the gathered crop.

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