First Nat. Bank of Ephrata v. Melberg

On September 24, 1924, one S. D. Catlow was in possession of a tract of farm land, situated in Grant county, under a contract of purchase entered into with the state. On the day named, he leased the land to the respondent, Melberg, for a term ending on October 1, 1925. The rent reserved was one-third of the crops grown thereon during the term of the lease. During the summer preceding the time of the lease, Catlow had caused some three hundred acres of the land to be summer-fallowed, and this part of the land was then ready to be seeded. Melberg was then largely indebted to the appellant,…