Shafer v. Stinson

Best, C.

The appellee bi’ought this suit against the appellant, alleging, substantially, in his complaint, that he had leased certain premises of the appellant to crop upon the *375shares : that, after the crops had partially matured, the appellant refused to allow him to cultivate or to gather them, and had taken and converted them to his own use, whereby he had sustained $350 damages.

An answer of three paragraphs was filed : 1st, a general denial; 2d, counter-claim; and, 3d, set-off.

A reply to the second and third paragraphs was filed. The issues thus formed were submitted to a jury for trial,…