Fitzgerald v. Coleman

This is a suit commenced b)r a distress warrant to collect $325 rent claimed to be due appellant from appellee for the year 1902. Appellee leased an 80 acre tract of farm lands from Mrs. Fitzgerald in March, 1894, at an annual rental of $325. The first leasing was for two years beginning . March 1, 1894, and before this lease expired another was made, extending two years from the expiration of the first, and thereafter successive leases were made continuing appellee’s tenancy, so that altogether he occupied the premises nine years. There is no dispute respecting the rent to be paid; it was…