Fleming v. Cooper

284 S.W.2d 857 (1955)

Francis W. FLEMING, Appellant,

v.

Ellis COOPER, Appellee.

No. 5-790.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

December 5, 1955.

Rehearing Denied January 9, 1956.

Jeff Duty, Claude Duty, Rogers, for appellant.

Lovell & Evans, Springdale, for appellee.

HOLT, Justice.

Francis W. Fleming, appellant, is the wife of Joe W. Fleming and has, for the past IS years, owned a small farm in Washington County. Appellee Cooper in 1939, under an oral lease agreement with Joe W. Fleming, became Fleming's tenant from year to year on a fifty-fifty basis and so continued until January 22, 1952, when he left the…