Gideon-Anderson Lumber Co. v. Hayes

ELLISON, J. — The appellants suffered an adverse judgment in unlawful detainer below. They had been tenants of a farm in New Madrid County during the cálendar year 1940 under a written lease with the owner. He declined to renew the lease for 1941, and rented the land to respondent. Appellants refused to- surrender possession and respondent brought this suit. At the circuit court-trial appellants offered to prove that in August, 1940, the landowner orally agreed to let them continue as tenants during 1941; and during the first week of the latter year the landowner’s authorized agent gave them…