Anderson v. Hodges

The plaintiff in error appeals from an adverse judgment, based on a jury verdict, in an action commenced against him by the plaintiff for damages alleged to have been occasioned by reason of defendant’s breach of an oral farm lease contract.

In substance the petition alleges that in December, 1933, the plaintiff and defendant entered into an oral contract whereby the defendant, as owner, leased to the plaintiff for the year 1934 about 180 acres of farm land for the customary one-third of the grain and one-fourth of the cotton grown by the plaintiff on the land. That the defendant failed and…