Whitehurst v. Barnett

Charles Hollins was for1 many years the owner of a tract of land, containing eighty-eight acres, hordering on the south side of the Severn River, a few miles above Annapolis.

In February, 1916, he executed a renewal lease for two and one-tenth acres of said land unto James E. Barnett of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the term of ten years, which expired on the loth day of January, 1926. Hollins, at other times prior to February, 1916, bad leased other small parcels of said land to Barnett for a like term of years, which leases were never renewed.

In the early part of the year 1926, J. Leiper Winslow,…