Smith v. Sprague

This is-a suit in trover for the conversion of a quantity of wheat. Plaintiff’s contention is that in the winter of 1894-95 defendant, Sprague, orally leased his farm for one year to one Orrin Cook, for money rent. The lease commenced with Cook’s occupaney, about March 1, 1895. At that time there was growing on the farm a field of wheat of about 18 acres, and in the lease it was agreed that Cook should have the privilege of sowing ant *149equal acreage that year, and of harvesting it the next. At the expiration of the first year, the parties settled satisfactorily; and it was then verbally agreed…