Black v. Scott

Omitting caption the petition is as follows:

“The plaintiff states that he is now and was during the year 1901 and for several years prior thereto the *38owner of the southwest one-fourth of the southeast quarter of section thirty-one (31), township sixty-two (62), range twelve (12), Knox county, Missouri, and that he rented said land to defendants for the year 1901 to be cultivated in corn and that defendants agreed and promised plaintiff to - give him two-fifths of the crop raised on said land and to husk plaintiff’s part of the corn and put it in plaintiff’s crib and plaintiff says that…