Clifton v. Hester

Coók, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant filed a bill in the chancery court of Monroe county against the administrator of the estate of J. T. Hester, deceased, seeking to recover the rent reserved in a certain lease contract. A demurrer to this bill was sustained, and thereupon complainant filed an amended bill averring that, for .the year 1923, he leased to the said J. T. Hester certain farm lands for a reserved rent of one-third of the corn and one-fourth of the cotton and sweet potatoes which might be raised thereon by the tenant; that the said J. T. Hester took possession…