Shumake v. Hawkins

CONNER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by the appellant and went to trial upon an amendecL original petition filed March 5, 1932, in which the plaintiff alleged that on or about July 20, 1930, he had orally leased to the defendant a farm in Clay county, Tex., for the crop year beginning August 1, 1930, and ending December 31, 1931; that the leased land consisted of about 600 acres; that the defendant was to cultivate the land and plant it in wheat and oats in the fall of 1930 and in cotton and corn in the spring of 1931 and to pay plaintiff rent therefor in the usual third and fourth…