Jewett v. Brooks

The defendant made a contract with the plaintiff, by the terms of which the plaintiff was to cultivate the defendant’s farm on shares for one year from April 1, 1880. Before the end of the year, on July 15, 1880, the defendant ordered the plaintiff off the premises, refused to allow him to go on under the contract, and let the land to a stranger by a written lease for a year. On the 22d of the same July, the plaintiff brought this action, and subsequently had a verdict, the defendant alleging a number of exceptions.

The first was to the judge’s refusal to rule that, on the pleadings, this…