Jones v. Jones

Bicknell, C. C.

This was an action by the appellee against the appellant, to recover damages for taking and carrying away wheat.

The appellee’s husband died in May, 1879, seized of a dwelling-house and forty acres of land around it, which was his ordinary family residence. On this land the wheat was growing ; it had been planted in the fall of 1878, by Abner Jones, under an agreement by which he was to have one-third of the crop for his labor, and the deceased was to furnish the seed and implements, and horses for sowing, cultivating and harvesting, and was to receive two-thirds of the crop.…