Section 66-12-108 - Liability of broker selling crop

Any factor, broker, commission merchant, or other person who sells the crop of a tenant or sharecropper, or any portion of it, with or without notice of such lien, before its bar, and applies the proceeds to the payment of the tenant's indebtedness to such seller, shall be liable as a purchaser to the person entitled to the rent and/or amount due for supplies.Acts 1899, ch. 22, § 1; Shan., § 5302a1; mod. Code 1932, §8024; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-1208.