Brown v. Owen

Action by appellant against appellee. The

case as made by the complaint, so far as it need be here stated, is as follows:

In August, 1881, appellant rented forty acres of his land to one Thomas Hardesty. Hardesty agreed to sow wheat upon the land, and in a good farm-like manner harvest and thresh the crop that might be raised, and for rent deliver to appellant one-half of the amount in the bushel, delivered at the threshing machine. Hardesty sowed the wheat. Just before harvest, in 1882, he sold his interest in the wheat to appellee, who assumed, and agreed to perform, Hardesty’s contract with…