Lane v. Ozias

*47The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for damages by a lessee of a quarter section of Scott county land because of his landlord’s failure to give him possession of the property.

The circumstances, in brief, were these: Prior to February, 1919, the defendant’s father, Dr. Charles Ozias, a resident of Missouri, owned the land. He had an agent in Scott City, W. B. Culbertson, who looked after his interests and collected his rents. In the winter of 1918-1919, the elder Ozias disposed of his property to his three children, the quarter of land involved being conveyed…