Adams v. Lynch

CHAPMAN, Justice.

The subject matter of this suit constitutes a landlord and tenant controversy between Mrs. Gertrude Callahan Lynch, plaintiff-appellee, and Melvin Adams, defendant-appellant, over the right of the landlord to dispossess the farm tenant. Mrs. Lynch contended she leased the land to Mr. Adams under an oral agreement for one year at a time and the latter contended he had a five year written lease. The case originated in the form of a trespass to try title with a stipulation of fee simple title in Mrs. Lynch. It was tried to a jury but after the evidence was completed the court…