Harris v. . Smith

Civil action to recover damages for breach of rental contract.

There is evidence on the record permitting the inference that in December, 1937, defendant's intestate, Marcellus Smith, agreed to rent to the plaintiff for the ensuing year "four acres in tobacco, four acres in cotton and six acres in corn"; that it is the general custom "when the landlord furnishes the team, each gets one-half of the crop"; that plaintiff cleaned up the vacant house which he was to occupy on defendant's place, but was prevented from moving in because there had been "some backing out." Plaintiff worked elsewhere…