Sutton v. Graham

Citations

• 80 Miss. 636

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and Tenant. Possession pending negotiations. Lease and purchase. Failure to contract. Effect as fixing rent.</p> <p>Where a party, pending negotiations looking to an entire contract with the owner for the yearly lease of lands for several years, and a subsequent purchase, enters into possession, and the negotiations failed to result in a contract, he is not liable for the rent stipulated for in the negotiations, but is liable for the reasonable rental value of the premises.</p>