Dungan v. Presley

SOUTHWICK, P.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Harold and Bobbie Dungan appeal from a Claiborne County Chancery Court decision awarding them $1,950 in pro-rated rents and $2,000 in damages for the failure of Gene Presley to maintain the roads on property Presley leased from the Dun-gans. We find that the chancellor’s decision was not manifestly erroneous and affirm.

FACTS

¶ 2. Gene Presley and Harold and Bobbie Dungan entered into a written lease on August 16, 1988. The lease was apparently drafted by Presley, and granted him the right to hunt, fish, graze, farm and cut hay on the Dungan’s property for a…