Tantlinger v. Sullivan
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Johnson District Court. —Hon. H. S. Fairall, Judge. The plaintiff is the owner of a farm, and the defendant cultivated part of the same in corn and oats in the year 1887, and agreed to deliver to the plaintiff two-fifths of the grain raised.
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Appeal from Johnson District Court. —Hon. H. S. Fairall, Judge. The plaintiff is the owner of a farm, and the defendant cultivated part of the same in corn and oats in the year 1887, and agreed to deliver to the plaintiff two-fifths of the grain raised. In the month of November of that year the corn was not all gathered, and the defendant turned some cattle on the land,, intending to allow them to run upon that part where the corn had been husked, but they escaped, and destroyed some of the crop. The plaintiff turned the cattle off the farm, and the defendant drove them back. This action was…
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, C. J.
*220' fieidOTo3,11 er • right of pas-" *219— I. The parties differ as to the terms of the contract upon which the land was farmed. *220The defendant claims that he had the right Pas^ure the land after the removal of the crops, and the plaintiff claims there was no snch right. It appears to us that it is fully-established by the evidence that the defendant occupied the part of the farm which he cultivated as a field-tenant or cropper, and that, under section 2015 of the Code, he had no right to use the land as a pasture after the crop was removed, nor in any event after December 1. See Kyte v. Keller, 76…
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