Tea v. Gates

Gates instituted a suit againsfa Tea before a justice of the peace for the value of certain corn, and recovered judgment for 50 dollars and 58 cents. The defendant appealed. Trial in the Common Pleas, and judgment for the plaintiff for 58 dollars and 95 cents. The defendant brings the case here.

The evidence is in the record, and shows that the plaintiff rented of the defendant, in 1854, some twenty-seven or twenty-eight acres of land, which was planted in corn; and is conflicting as to the amount of rent that was to be paid —whether it was one-half in the field, each party to gather his own,…