Chapel v. Hull
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Jackson. (Gridley, J.) Bill filed to restrain waste. Defendant adjudged guilty of contempt in violating injunction and appealed from such decree. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from Jackson. (Gridley, J.) Bill filed to restrain waste. Defendant adjudged guilty of contempt in violating injunction and appealed from such decree. The facts are stated in the opinion. In the absence of an express covenant, one is implied on the part of a tenant, to manage and cultivate the leased premises in a good and husbandlike manner, and according to the custom of tbe neighborhood : Wood’s Landlord & Tenant §§ 318, 413; Wait’s Actions & Defenses, vol. 4, p. 241; Ewell on Fixtures, pp. 124-6 ; Brown v. Crump, 1 Marsh, 567 (4 Eng. Com. Law); Legh v. Hewitt, 4 East. 154; Lewis v.…
1Opinion of the CourtChamplin, J.
Complainants are heirs-at-law of Edmond W. Richardson, deceased. On the eighth day of February, 1882, W. W. Dean, as administrator of the estate of Edmond "W. Richardson, deceased, by a written lease, let to the defendant a farm containing about 200 acres, of which about 140 acres was tillable land, and the balance was marsh and woodland. The term was to expire on the first day of April, 1885,. and the rental was $500 a year, and all road taxes.
At the time the lease was executed there were about thirty-five acres of wheat then growing on the farm, which under an arrangement with-the lessor he…
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