Sing On v. Brown

This is a suit to cancel and set aside a lease from the defendant O. E. Brown to the plaintiff of a hop yard for one year, and to reinstate a lease thereof from the defendant Jacob Brown for five years. In February,. 1901, Jacob Brown, being the owner of the yard in question, leased it to one Pon Lee for five years at an annual rental of $10 an acre, payable on the 1st day of March of each year. The lease contained a stipulation that it should be void, except for the year for which the rent had already been *12paid, in case Brown should “ sell or otherwise transfer” the hop yárd. Shortly after…