Newsom v. Meade

Hatches, Judge:

This is an action of unlawful entry and detainer, wherein John W. Newsom, plaintiff below, prosecutes error here, from an adverse judgment in the circuit court of Mingo county.

On Dec. 8, 1917, W. T. Meade and wife, as1 lessors, entered into a written contract, under seal, with the plaintiff as lessee, respecting the lease of forty acres on the Pork Ridge in said county. The contract recited that the lessee had cleared about eighteen acres on the forty acre tract; and that “both the lessors and the lessee have purchased and planted thereon 1800 fruit trees within the last four…