Jogeephus
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I don't know if many of you are familiar with share cropping but it was done a lot around here and is still practiced here to some extent. Anyhow, my wife was talking to a friend of ours and it turned out that his great grandfather gave a bunch of his land to his share croppers for 99 years and after this time the land reverted back to his family. Most of the decendents of the share croppers thought the land was theirs and some built their homes on the land and raised their families. The 99 years is now up and some were surprised to learn they did not own the land they farmed or built their houses on. This could have been an ugly situation but the heirs were good people and they worked everything out and no one lost their homes and there wasn't any killing or bloodshed. Seems reality can be stranger than fiction.