Smith v. Roberts

Roberts sued Smith, alleging that Smith resided in Knox county, and rented to one J. H. Bailey 160 aqres on some part of section 100, situated in Terry county, for which Bailey was to deliver one-third of all grain and one-fourth of all cotton raised on said land during the year 1917; that Bailey sold the lease or contract, with the work and crop started thereon, to Roberts, after having first secured the consent of Smith, the landlord, and appellee, Roberts, thereafter went into possession and finished planting the crop; that on August 9, 1917, appellant, Smith, unlawfully and without…