Hause
Hause v. Phillips
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Buckles, J.
This is an action in claim and delivery to recover the possession of two mares and two yearling colts, which defendant claims to hold for a pasturage bill for them and other animals. Judgment was for plaintiff, and defendant moved for a new trial, which was' denied. The appeal is from the judgment and from the order denying a motion for a new trial.
On October 18, 1901, the defendant and one T. C. Hodgsen, then the husband of plaintiff, entered into a written lease for certain lands, which lease was for one year from and after November 1, 1901. This lease contained the following provision in relation to pasturage: “The party of the first part reserves for himself the -use and benefit of the pasturage now on said tracts of land, including the acorns upon and under the oak trees thereon, and also the right to gather and remove from said lands the crop of corn now growing thereon and also the pasturage left after the removal of said crop of com.” Hodgsen died in June, 1902. In October, 1902, and about a month before the lease would expire according to its terms, defendant agreed orally with the plaintiff, widow of T. C. Hodgsen, that she should have the land another year on the same…