Colwell v. Adams

The plaintiff brings suit in assumpsit for board, and for a quantity of wheat. The claim for the wheat plaintiff received by assignment from her husband, James Oolwell, in the year 1881.

James Colwell, in 1875, took certain land of the defendant by parol agreement to work on shares, giving defendant one-half of the crops raised. He went into possession of the property under the agreement, and remained thereon ■until the month of March, 1878, and then removed therefrom. In the fall of 1877, J ames Colwell sowed about 15 or 20 acres to wheat, and defendant testified when the wheat was ready for…