Whitlock v. Berry
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Monroe District Court. — Hon. F. M. Hunter, Judge. Action at law to recover payment of rent as stipulated in a written lease. There was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, C. J.
By the terms of the written lease plaintiff let to defendants the grass and pasture land on certain designated tracts for the season of 1910 at the agreed rent of $2.50 per acre. The leased land was estimated at two hundred acres, but it was stipulated that the true area was to be ascertained by measurement. Among the obligations assumed by the lessor was one stated in the following words: “First party is to keep the fences on and around said farm owned by him in sufficiently good repair to turn cattle during the term of this'lease and to notify adjoining owners in the event that their part…
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