Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1901 — In Favor of Gifford. [ARTICLE]

In Favor of Gifford.

The appellate oourt last week decided one of the grain oases of Mr. B. J, Gifford vs. H. A. Meyers, sent up from Pulaski oounty. The case is similar to oases filed here, and has a local Interest. The appellate oourt held :

(1). Where the owner of a farm executed a written lease for the buildings thereon and lots surrounding them, and the grass and pasture lands thereon, at a stipulated rent,including the work of raising crops on the cultivated land of suoh farm, reserving to himself all grain crops that should be raised thereon, but undertaking to pay his tenaut two-thirds of all suoh grain In payment for his work of raising it, subject to a deduction for all debts owing from the tenant to his landlord for rent or other demands, all grain raised on such cultivated land by suoh tenant was the property of the landowner until It was divided and the tenant’s share delivered to him, and the purchaser of suoh grain from the tenant before snoh division was liable to the landlord for its value in a suit for conversion, without regard to the state of the account between such landlord and suoh tenant. (2). Such contract was not unlawful, and did not create the relation of landlord and tenant as to the cultivated ground. (8). It wss not neoessary that Buch contract should be recorded to give the landowner a right to recover such grain.