Hammond v. Dean

*194This suit was brought by Hammond in the Circuit Court of Greene county to recover of Dean two hundred dollars for the rent of a farm for the year 1869. The contract of lease was in writing, signed by both parties; it recites that “the said- H. C. Hammond has this day leased a certain tract or parcel of •land; said land is the land that the said Hammond leased of W. W. Drake, known as Drake’s land,” ■etc. After setting out the terms of the lease for two years, it proceeds: “the last year, in the fall, Dean is to sow the land in grass seed, provided said Drake furnishes the seed to it.” And…