Thompson v. Fields

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

Appellant, James Thompson, owns a farm which he rented to appellee, Bill Fields, for the year 1960. The agreed rental was $20 per acre, or a total of $2,320, which amount was evidenced by a note signed by appellee and delivered to appellant.

It is not disputed that appellee took over the land (largely through an employee named James Ward) about the first of 1960, that he put it into cultivation (mostly cotton and soybeans), that he cultivated it until about the middle of July, 1960 when appellant took over the operation by cultivating, harvesting, and marketing the…