Kenfield v. Curry

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by landlords from a judgment founded upon the unlawful ejectment of the respondent from the appellants’ farm lands in Hill County. The case was tried by a jury before the Honorable C. B. Elwell of the twelfth judicial district of the State of Montana, in and for the County of Hill.

The case arises out of an oral farm lease made for the 1961-62 crop year. One of the appellants, Frances Freeman Curry, is the aunt of Dennis Kenfield, respondent. The lease in question covered some 1,600 acres, and the agreement was…