Bumgardner v. Scaggs
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Christian county; the Hon. James C. McBride, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1912.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Philbrick
John Scaggs and John Crawford owned 160 acres of land in Christian county. Scaggs was an elderly man and unable to actively engage in business; for his interest in these premises he executed a lease to Crawford, who was his son-in-law and who looked after the land for him. For the year commencing March 1,1910, and ending March 1, 1911, a lease for this land was made to Nelson Bumgardner. In December, Bumgardner abandoned the premises without notice to Scaggs and Crawford and moved to the state of Kansas. In September, 1910, Bumgardner sowed upon these premises forty acres of wheat. After…
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