Bauer v. Monroe

Albert Tetrault, an elderly bachelor, owned two ranches, 15 miles apart, located on Beaver Creek in Phillips county, Montana. The upper ranch comprised over 2,000 acres and the lower ranch, called “the hay ranch”, comprised 640 acres.

Tetrault first employed the plaintiff Henry H. Bauer as a ranch hand and for a number of years plaintiff continued in such employment working for wages. In the year 1921 Tetrault and plaintiff entered into a lease agreement whereby plaintiff agreed to operate the hay ranch and to give to the landlord, Tetrault, as rental therefor one-half of all the hay produced…