Breckenridge Asphalt Co. v. Richardson

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson—

Affirming.

*835On December 10, 1888, Taylor Compton and wife executed to Ed Bennett and Company, a lease. Bennett and Company transferred the lease to the Breckenridge Asphalt Company who entered upon the property and operated an asphalt mine which was worked by it until the year 1900. About the year 1902, it removed from the premises its machinery and since that time it has done nothing under .the lease except that it paid Compton $20 a year as rental, which he accepted. In the year 1905, I. B. Richardson bought the land and received a deed for it. For…