Phillips v. Cook

CODY, Justice.

-This, was a suit. by. John H.- Cook and Joe W. Kolos, appellees, against appellant, *295John Phillips, to recover for lost profits'by reason of the breach of an alleged verbal rice farming contract. The facts were somewhat unusual. Appellant did not own the land on which the rice crop was to be grown but the same was owned by John W. Stormont and wife and it was contemplated that appellant should' rent the land from the Stormonts for 10% of the net value of the rice crop and in turn rent the land (consisting of 259 acres) to appellees for shares of the rice crop to be grown.…