Potter v. Baynes

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle —

Affirming.

- The matter in controversy in this action is one-third of a crop of com, amounting to between 250 and 300 barrels, produced by a tenant in 1917 upon a 110-acre farm in McCracken county, then owned by tbe appellee, J. P. Baynes, but which on October 28, 1917, be sold and by proper deed conveyed to the appellant, R. L. Potter, at the price of $4,500.00, cash in band paid. The latter abont October 1, by a writing obtained through appellee’s agents, Phillips and Moore, of Metropolis, Illinois, was given a ten day option to purchase tbe land at…