Newman v. Kellogg

The appellee, Jessie Kellogg, was the owner of an eighty-acre tract of land in Conway county and had contracted to purchase from a bank in Morril-ton a 235-acre tract adjoining, commonly called the “First State Bank lands” or “the bottom lands.” Ap-pellee owed a balance of about $1,600 to the bank. She had rented both of these tracts for the years 1936 to 1940, inclusive, to the appellant, J. F. Newman, with an agreement that if she should sell the lands the lease contract should terminate and possession be given to the purchaser on the first of the succeeding year. During the year 1936,…