Case Name: H. Holcombe v. A. Townsend
Court: South Carolina Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1833-12
Citations: 1 Hill 399
Docket Number: 
Parties: H. Holcombe v. A. Townsend.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 19
Pages: 399–399

Head Matter:
H. Holcombe v. A. Townsend.
Vide State v. Gay, ante p 364.
To enable the plaintiff to maintain trover for goods, he must have either a general or special property in them, the actual possession* or the right of possession; but where the plaintiff had been employed by the defendant as a cropper, and was to receive one fourth of the crop for his services; Held, that no right of property in the crop .was vested in the tiff until partition, and that therefore, he could not maintain trover for his share of the crop, but that as-sumpsit was his remedy for a breach of the contract to deliver.

Opinion:
Curia per
Johnson, J.
affirming the decision of Mr. Justice Evans, at Union, Fall Term, 1833.