Case ID: ind_123/html/0176-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Elliott, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 14,091.
    Kloster v. Elliott.
    Landlord and Tenant. — Lease.—Construction of. — Gi'owing Crop. — Where a lease contained the following provision: “ And for the rental use of said farm, he, the said William Kloster, is to deliver at Bochester two-fifths of all crops grown on said farm to A. C. Elliott, including the present growing crop of clover-seed,” the lessor was entitled to the annual crop of clover then growing on the demised premises. •
    From the Fulton Circuit Court.
    
      J. Rowley and M. A. Baker, for appellant.
    
      G. W. Holman and R. C. Stephenson, for appellee.
   Elliott, J.

The question in this case depends entirely upon the meaning of a written contract to which the court gave a construction adverse to the contention of the appellant.

The contract is contained in a lease executed by the appellee as lessor, and the provisions of the instrument, so far as they are material, are these : “And for the rental use of said farm he, the said William Kloster, is to deliver at Rochester two-fifths of all crops grown on said farm to A. C. Elliott, including the present growing crop of clover seed.” Read in the light of attendant facts, we think there can be no doubt that the contract means, as the trial court held, that the lessor was entitled to the annual crop of clover then growing on the demised premises.

Filed April 8, 1890.

Judgment affirmed.