Hays v. Sullins

OPINION

PRESLAR, Justice.

Appellee, Nollie M. Sullins, recovered judgment against appellant, S. Leslie Hays, on a claim for loss of rentals of farm lands under a lease which appellee maintained was for a term of three years and appellant contended was for one year. The trial was to the court without a jury and resulted in the court finding a three-year lease and awarding damages in an agreed amount of $10,694.54.

The parties had operated under a written three-year lease of the lands involved and that lease expired on January 15, 1962. Some time around January 1, 1962, Hays called Mrs. Sullins…