Horton-Howard v. Payton

This is an action of unlawful detainer. Plaintiff appeals from a judgment in favor of defendants. Defendants claim the right of possession under a written lease executed to them, as lessees, by plaintiff and one Helen A. Wright, as the lessors, whereby defendants leased from plaintiff and her colessor, for the term of five years, a twenty-five acre ranch near Norwalk, in Los Angeles County, agreeing to plant all the ranch to beets, farm it in a workmanlike manner, and, as rent, pay the lessors one-fourth of all the crops raised. Helen A. Wright, one of the colessors, has since conveyed all of…