Brown v. Jaquette
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware county: Of January Term 1879, No. 57. Case stated wherein Martha M. Brown and others, devisees of J. J. Brown, were plaintiffs and J. L. Jaquette defendant.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware county: Of January Term 1879, No. 57. Case stated wherein Martha M. Brown and others, devisees of J. J. Brown, were plaintiffs and J. L. Jaquette defendant. The case, as stated, was, in substance, as follows: On October 20th 1864, J. J. Brown and S. P. Jaquette executed the following agreement in writing: “ That for the term of one year, commencing on the first day of April 1865, to be fully completed on the thirty-first day of March 1866, the said Jaquette for and in consideration of one-half the product, agrees to farm for the said-J. J. Brown,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The agreement between Joseph Johnson Brown and Samuel P. Jaquette, of October 20th 1864, is a lease of a farm upon the shares. See Steel v. Frick, 6 P. F. Smith 172. Jaquette agreed to farm the land for Brown, for which he was to have one-half the proceeds; each party furnishing one-half the seed, stock, poultry, hogs, &e. The agreement was for the term of one year, commencing on the first day of April, the usual time for letting farms in Pennsylvania. While it lacks some of the formality of a lease, it contains all the essential requisites of such an instrument. The reservation of one-half…
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