Carter v. DuPre

Citations

• 18 S.C. 179
• 1882 S.C. LEXIS 123

Syllabus

<p>1. A contract for rent of a farm carries with, it, under the statute (16 Stat. 411), a lien on the tenant’s crop for the payment of the rent, without an express agreement that there shall be a lien.</p> <p>2. A wife, holding a preferred lien for rent on the crops made by her husband on lands leased by him from her, is not estopped from asserting her lien, as against a second lien for supplies, by reason of her signing a first lien for supplies (inferior to her rent- lien) given by her husband, or because of payments made by him on such first lien for supplies, and to other persons.</p> <p>3. Cotton delivered by this tenant to the landlord for rent having been seized under legal process at the instance of the holders of the latest lien, the landlord is entitled to recover from the sheriff- the highest value of the cotton at any time between the seizure and trial, with interest from the date of seizure. ■ -</p>