Lauffer v. Vial

Opinion by

Rhodes, J.,

Plaintiff brought this action in assumpsit against defendant to recover eleven-fifteenths of the amount of money expended by plaintiff in improving defendant’s land under the terms of an alleged agreement. Plaintiff declared that defendant, by her son and agent, entered into an oral contract or agreement with him by the terms of which he was to remove second growth, stumps, trees, briers, etc., and make tillable and fit for agriculture certain land of defendant, and in consideration thereof defendant agreed to give to plaintiff a lease for said tract of land for a period…