Pearson v. Reese

The essential facts out of which the issues in this case arose are as follows: Harry Pearson and Ola F. Pearson, on January 27,1932, executed a written lease of a certain 60-acre tract of real estate to Wilson Reese and Nerve Reese, for the period from March 1, 1932, to February 28, 1933. By the provisions of the lease the lessees were to pay or to give to the lessors as rent two-fifths of all grain raised on the leased land, and to deliver same in market. It appears that defendants appellants delivered to plaintiffs appellees 81 bushels of oats raised on the leased premises; that corn raised…