Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1899 — Grain Dealers Must Look Out. [ARTICLE]

Grain Dealers Must Look Out.

Editor Republican: I give you a syllabus of a recent decision (filed April 25) in the. Appellate court of Indiana, touching a matter of large interest effecting myself and many other people in Jasper County, which I think should be published in your paper, as ignorance of the question of the law involved has costs many law suits between myself and grain dealers in Jasper County. It covers the subj’ect of “Rent, Landlords lien, Purchaser's Liability" and reads as follows: “Ist. Where an owner leased his farm, reserving two fifths of all crops thereon as rent, and the tenant sold such portion of his crops to a dealer, without retaining other grain with which to pay the rent, nor paying the same, and the purchaser mingled such grain with other grain of like kind in his ware house, he is liable to the landlord for its value in an action for its conversion. “2nd. Under section 5224, a landlord has a lien on the crops raised on the leased premises under the tenant’s contract for part of the crops or in cash, of which the tenant cannot divest him without his knowledge or consent. “3rd. A purchaser from the tenant of crops raised on the leased premises is bound to take notice of the landlord’s statutory lien and his lack of actual notice is no protection to him." Yours Truly, Benj. J. Gifford.