Taylor v. Winn

The plaintiff was the owner of real property in Umatilla County, which he had let to a tenant, .Hansell, for a term of years, by a lease *384which required the payment of a sum of money in cash, also six dollars per acre on October 1, 1914, and a like sum per acre payable on October 1, 1915, and the first of each October thereafter during the term. The lease began on April 21, 1914, and ran “until the first day of October in the year 1919.” On August 21, 1917, the plaintiff Taylor issued to the defendant a receipt reciting the payment of $10,000 as earnest-money on the purchase price of the…