Rossiter v. Citizens' State Bank of Minco
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from County Court, Grady County; N. M. Williams, Judge. Action by the Ctiizens’ State Bank of Mineo against Joe Rossiter and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
BREWER, C.
This is a suit for the possession of certain farming lands which had been occupied by one of defendants below under a written lease which had expired before the bringing of the suit. His defense was that before the expiration of his written lease he had made a verbal contract with the owner of the land to occupy same for one year, beginning the 1st of January, and ending the 31st day of December, 1918.
At the conclusion of the evidence the court-instructed the jury to find in favor of 'plaintiff, on the theory that a verbal lease of land for the period of one year, the…
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