Singh

This is an appeal from a judgment for four thousand dollars against the defendants P. B. Cross, Joseph Carlson, Alden Anderson, and Howard H. Payne in an action to recover damages alleged to have been caused to plaintiffs by reason of the breach by said defendants of an agreement for the leasing of certain lands in the county of Colusa, state of California.

The controversy arises over the construction of this lease, which covered a period of two years and in which plaintiffs were the lessees and appellants the lessors of a tract of land in Colusa County, California. The lessees agreed to pay a certain rental and to prepare the land for the planting of rice and to plant rice upon the same, and to do all irrigating, weeding, harvesting, sacking, threshing, and hauling of the rice. The lessor promised “to furnish water at his own cost and expense in an amount usual in said locality for maturing rice that may then be planted upon said premises, and agreed that said water shall be made available for use not later than the 25th day of April of each year of the term hereby created and to be furnished continuously during the season. In the event it is impracticable to commence the supply…