Higgins v. Gager
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Craighead circuit court, Jonesboro district. Felix G. Taylor, Judge. An oral agreement for the lease of real estate for a year, to commence in the future, is invalid under the statute of frauds. Sand. & H. Dig., § 3469, sub-div. 5 and 6; 1 Ld. Raym. 736; Browne, Stat. Fr. § 33; 20 So. 77; 43 Minn. 166; 9 So. 164; 19 Mo.
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Appeal from Craighead circuit court, Jonesboro district. Felix G. Taylor, Judge. An oral agreement for the lease of real estate for a year, to commence in the future, is invalid under the statute of frauds. Sand. & H. Dig., § 3469, sub-div. 5 and 6; 1 Ld. Raym. 736; Browne, Stat. Fr. § 33; 20 So. 77; 43 Minn. 166; 9 So. 164; 19 Mo. App. 66; 40 ib. 251; 45 ib. 401; 3 Pac. 573; 4 Cush. 42; 3 Atl. 800; 22 111. 248; 3 Mon. 247; 22 Kas. 436; 31 Ga. 507; 19 111. 576; 78 111. 125; 50 Ala. 411; Wood, Stat. of Fr. 45; Tayl.Landl. & Ten. § 30 and note. The agreement, so far as it relates to personal…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
Appellants, on the 15th day of December, 1893, entered into a contract with appellee, which is stated by appellee as follows: “We made a contract whereby defendants [appellants] were to pay me $55 per month, cash in advance, from January 1, 1894, during the entire year, for the.use of the saloon room adjoining the hotel office of the Gager House, the small room back of the saloon room, one billiard table, one pool table, eues, racks, balls, wires for each, and other fixtures accompanying the same, and I was not to sell cigars in the hotel office, and was to leave the door between the hotel…
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