Elliott v. Gentry

BICKLEY, Justice.

Elliott being the owner of lands, sued to evict Gentry, his tenant, from the possession thereof, and prevailed. Gentry appealed. During the existence of the relation, Elliott and Gentry signed a cotton acreage reduction contract with the secretary of agriculture, covering the Elliott farm. This contract is primarily between the owner Elliott, referred to therein as the “producer” and the secretary' of agriculture. It covers 1934 and also 1935 at the option of the secretary. A certain acreage representing the reduced acreage ordinarily planted to cotton is thereby rented to…