Dickey v. Clark

The appellant, B. G. Dickey, was the curator of the estate of Charlie Lewis Townes, a nonresident minor, and, as such, leased the lands of his ward for a period of five years to Renfroe Turner, which lease was approved by Judge Oliver, the then county judge of Crittenden County. The annual rental was fixed at the sum of $3,000. Dickey executed a written waiver of the rents for 1932 in order for the lessee to secure advances to enable him to make a crop. In his 1933 annual report, Dickey claimed credit for the rents of 1932 on the ground that the crop made for that year was consumed in the…