Hartley v. Garnham

That we may determine the ownership of a wheat crop put in by plaintiffs on lands afterwards, but before harvest, acquired by defendant, the meaning of a lease, made upon a law blank with the usual erasures and additions, must be found.

This printed form, so often the hope and despair of landlords and tenants, was evidently devised to furnish suggestion and phrase for every thing possible to be contemplated in the letting of a farm *500on shares. I take it that it was not designed to be a consistent, connected whole, but rather to afford coherent expression for every conceivable pact between the…