82 Neb. 32 | Neb. | 1908
Lizzie Fonner leased certain farm lands in Hall county to one Dou for a term of one year, beginning March 1, 1906, for cash rent. The lease contained a clause prohibiting the tenant from subletting the premises without the consent
A number of questions of law are presented and argued in the briefs, which are unnecessary to consider at length. We do not think the provisions of the lease against subletting were in anywise a bar to the right of the tenant to •sell his crop upon the premises. We think the tenant had the undoubted right to sell the crop, including the corn stalks, and that the purchaser acquired the right to go upon the premises during the life of the lease for the purpose of harvesting or removing the crop in the usual and customary manner. And during the life of the lease the landlord would have no right to interfere with the purchaser in the proper harvesting of the crop. But in this case the evidence does not show that the appellee was guilty of such interference as would warrant the issuance of an injunction. It is very apparent that she did not want Kirkpatrick to pasture 50 head of cattle on her farm, and that she did not want his cattle to range upon and over her premises and about the buildings thereon, and it appears that she believed that the appellant was a trespasser, and ordered him on several occasions to take his cattle off, and that after the cattle had been driven off of the premises by some one she refused, to permit the appellant to return the cattle to the premises. It appears, however, that he disregarded her refusal, and returned, the cattle into the fields. The evidence shows that on several occasions thereafter the cattle were either driven from or permitted to escape from the premises. The appellant charges that appellee drove the cattle away, and, in fact,so testified. But it appears that his evidence in that respect is a conclusion, rather than a statement of fact. It is not apparent that he saw the appellee drive the cattle from the field, or that any other witness did so. She positively denied that she drove the cattle off, or authorized any one else to do so. In this state of the record we think the evidence was wholly insufficient to justify the issuance
We therefore recommend that the temporary order of injunction, which has been continued in force by means of a supersedeas bond, be dissolved, and that the judgment of the district court be affirmed.
By the Court: For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion, it is ordered that the temporary order of injunction granted in this cause be dissolved, and that the judgment of the district court be
Affirmed.