Sullivan v. Board of Trustees

This case originated before a justice of the peace. On the trial in the circuit court on appeal, the court directed the jury to find the defendant not guilty.

William Sullivan, appellant, owned a farm in Champaign county on which one Matt Ohl was a tenant, under a lease providing for a cash rental of $1,000 per year payable in the sums of $500 on the first days of September and January of each year. The lease expired on the first day of March, 1930. During the season from March 1, 1929, and ending March 1, 1930, Ohl raised certain corn upon the premises part of which, consisting of 340…