Bowser Et Ux. v. Patton Et Ux.

Opinion by

Dithrich, J.,

Appellants, tenants under an agricultural lease of a farm owned by appellees, are here attempting to receive two crops for one year’s rental, an unheard of proposition either under the common law or the general custom in Pennsylvania. There is no statute on the subject.

Under the common law a tenant for years had no right to a crop of grain sown by him during a term and coming to maturity after its expiration. Littleton, Section 68.

The common law has been modified in Pennsylvania by a general custom, that has the status of a general law, that where a lease commences in…