McCutchen v. Crenshaw

Citations

• 40 S.C. 511
• 19 S.E. 140
• 1894 S.C. LEXIS 177

Syllabus

<p>1. Labor Contract — Lien on Crops. — A contract required laborers to take in charge, plant, cultivate, and manure the several parcels of land designated by the landowner, according to the directions of the landowner and his agent, to house the crops, and see that no portion was removed until the owner had deducted for himself the amounts stated, and to be of good moral behavior, and respectful to the proprietor, his family, and agent. Held, that this contract did not create the relation of landlord and tenants, but of employer and laborers; that the laborers had no such interest in the soil or crops as would support a lien to a merchant for advances; and such a lien having been executed, and the crops made by one of these laborers seized thereunder, the landowner was entitled to recover the crop so seized. This case distinguished from Whaley v. Jacobson, 21 S. 0., 59.</p>