Giroux v. McCrea

Kiley, J.:

In the year 1921, and previous thereto, the defendant and appellant, Joseph McCrea, owned a farm of 106 acres in the town of Champlain, Clinton county, N. Y. Upon this farm was what would be classed as the main house and farm buildings and some distance therefrom a tenant house. In the month of February, 1921, the plaintiff, respondent, had a conversation with McCrea at his barn on the farm about working the farm on shares. That conversation is given by the respondent as follows: “ I asked Mr. McCrea if he wanted to give" his farm on shares and he told me yes, and he told me his…