Alt v. Hobbs

On the seventh of February, 1891, plaintiff leased to defendant six hundred acres of timbered land for a period ending December 31, 1897, defendant stipulating in said lease to inclose the land therein demised, to clear one hundred acres per year, or, in case of unavoidable prevention, to clear enough in the following year to make up the deficiency of the year before, to erect certain houses, and not to sublet without the written permission of the lessor. It was alleged in the petition that defendant had committed such breaches of the foregoing stipulations as to work a forfeiture of his…