Yoder's Heirs v. Easley

Judge Underwood

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Yoder, in his life time, leased a tenement to Lawson, to hold until the 1st of March, 1832. In the fall of 1831, Lawson sold his crop and the residue of his term to Rogersson, and moved. Rogersson put fodder in the house, and shut it up. He went to see Yoder, and informed him of the contract with Lawson, and that he Rogersson was to pay the rent; to all which Yoder assented. Upon Rogersson’s return, he found his fodder thrown out of the house, and Easley with a bed in it, claiming possession of the premises as his own.

Yoder died on the 7th of…