Hill v. Lea Milling Co.

Citations

• 28 Del. 125
• 5 Boyce 125
• 90 A. 1066
• 1914 Del. LEXIS 16

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and Tenant—Termination of Tenancy—Rights in Crop.</p> <p>A tenant in August, 1910, rented a farm at one thousand dollars yearly rent, which was paid for the years 1911 and 1912. The tenant sowed a crop of wheat in the fall of 1912, furnishing the seed wheat and phosphate, and moved away at “moving time” in the early part of 1913. Held, that the tenant was entitled to one-half the crop of 1913, and the landlord one-half, and the tenant could recover from the landlord one-half the amount he had paid out for phosphate.</p>