Wiehl v. Winslow

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This is an action by C. S. Wiehl against C. L. Winslow, the Ryan Grain Company and the Farmers Elevator Company to recover money due the plaintiff as rent on a crop of wheat. A demurrer to plaintiff’s evidence was sustained by the trial court and judgment for defendants given, from which plaintiff appeals.

*148In 1917, J. C. Hopper, the owner of 4,500 acres of land known as the “Big Four ranch,” rented the same to W. C. Stanley by written lease. By the terms of the lease Stanley was to pay, as rental, $500 for the grazing land, a dollar an…