50 Ga. App. 762 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1935
1. Upon the sale of land under a power granted in a security deed, where, as in this ease, the instrument was executed prior to the passage of the act of August 2-1, 1922, declaring all crops to be personalty, the signer of a rent note, executed to the grantor in the security deed prior to the sale.of the land thereunder, ceased to be a tenant of the grantor and became the tenant of the grantee as purchaser of the land under the sale, and was accountable to him for the rent due under the contract made with the grantor. Chason v. O’Neal, 158 Ga. 725 (124 S. E. 519) ; Blitch v. Lee, 115 Ga. 112 (41 S. E. 275) ; Garrison v. Parker, 117 Ga. 537, 538 (43 S. E. 849) ; Dollar v. Roddenbery, 97 Ga. 148 (25 S. E. 410) ; Hancock v. Boggus, 111 Ga. 884 (36 S. E. 970) ; Brooks v. Causey, 36 Ga. App. 233 (136 S. E. 282). The amount of rent recoverable is recognized in these cases as being the stipulated interest in the crops held by the grantor, or other agreed rental. In the Ohason case, supra, it was only because the grantor had allowed the tenant to occupy the land without payment of rent that the court held that under such circumstances the purchaser at the sale was. entitled to a fair and reasonable amount, in the absence of any prior stipulation. The court therefore did not err in directing a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the amount of rental as stipulated in the rental agreement.
2. There was no evidence to raise any issue for the jury as to whether the tenant, the wife of the grantor in the security deed, executed the rental note as an assumption of the debt of the husband secured by the deed to the grantee, since it appeared, without dispute, that this note was
Judgment affirmed on the main bill of exceptions; eross-bill dismissed.