Ogden

This appeal is by the plaintiff from a judgment in the defendants ’ favor in an action brought by the former to establish and foreclose a lien upon the real property of certain of the defendants. On and prior to March 22, 1920, the defendants, other than T. E. Maroney, were the owners of a large tract of land in the county of Colusa, and thereafter continued to be the owners of said lands down to and after the date of the institution of this action. On March 22, 1920, the said owners of said lands entered into a cropping lease, in writing, whereby they leased to the defendant Maroney their said lands for a period of two years or thereabouts for the purpose of planting and growing thereon “rice and other grain.” By the terms of said lease the lessee was to properly irrigate said land and do all things to insure the growing of a good crop of rice thereon and to harvest the same and to deliver to the lessors one-third in weight of said rice; except that the lessors were to provide two pumps and engines for the supplying of water to certain portions of said premises from a water channel upon said lands, and were also to pay the expense of the necessary plowing and watering of a…