Stephenson v. Peterson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harvey, J.:

This is an action for damages for the breach of a contract. The trial court sustained defendants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings. Plaintiffs have appealed.

The facts disclosed by the pleadings may be thus briefly stated: *691Plaintiffs owned a farm in Pottawatomie county which they leased to defendants, under an oral lease, for a term extending to and expiring March 1, 1926, by the terms of which oral lease defendants were to have the exclusive right of possession of the premises for the term expiring March 1, 1926, and specifically…