Howard-Bobbitt Co. v. Never Fail Land Co.

The material facts are: Howard-Bobbitt Co., the plaintiff, is a corporation doing a wholesale grocery business in Sanford, N. C. The Never Fail Land Co., the defendant, is a corporation engaged in farming in the county of Harnett, at Pineview, N. C., with its principal office in Oxford, N. C. S. S. Puckett rented, the year 1923, from the Never Fail Land Co., certain of its land in Harnett County and cultivated 341 acres in tobacco. Puckett’s contract was to pay for the land one-fourth of the crop raised as rent. Puckett had eighteen or twenty tenants, and bad to furnish supplies to the…