Case ID: so2d_351/html/1151-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jack R. WRIGHT, Appellant, v. Dick McGINLEY and Mary McGinley, Appellees.
    No. EE-163.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    Nov. 18, 1977.
    Hale R. Stancil, Ocala, for appellant.
    Willard Ayres of Ayres, Cluster, Curry, Meffert & McCall, Ocala, for appellees.
   PER CURIAM.

Appellant seeks review of an order dismissing its complaint with prejudice. After appellant was evicted from farm property he had leased from his landlords, appellees, he brought an action seeking to replevin certain crops he had planted during the first year of his tenancy, alleging that at the time of his eviction the crops were either mature and ready for harvest or were approaching maturity. Although growing crops may be treated as personalty for the purpose of sale, they are part of the real estate until severed and follow the real estate unless specifically reserved. Simmons v. Williford, 60 Fla. 359, 53 So. 452 (1910). We find no error.

AFFIRMED.

MILLS and ERVIN, JJ., concur.

BOYER, Acting C. J., concurring specially-

BOYER, Acting Chief Judge,

concurring specially.

I reluctantly concur in the result reached, but only because of the law that if the estate of a tenant is forfeited or the tenancy terminated by some act of the tenant, (which appears to be the case sub judice) he will not be entitled to recover the crops from the demised premises. 21 Am.Jur.2d “Crops”, § 24 et seq., pp. 609-610