Randall v. Chubb
| Decision Date | 23 June 1881 |
| Citation | 46 Mich. 311,9 N.W. 429 |
| Court | Michigan Supreme Court |
| Parties | RANDALL v. CHUBB. |
A lease upon shares is a personal contract and not assignable where the amount of rent received must depend on the character and skill of the lessee, or where it gives the lessee the use of lessor's tools on condition that they may be properly kept. A personal lease is forfeited by an assignment and attempt to give the assignee possession and the lessor may take immediate steps to recover the premises.
Error to Livingston.
Waddell & Montague, for plaintiff in error.
T.R Shields and D. Shields, for defendant in error.
The evidence fully sustains the finding of facts in this case. Chubb leased the premises in question to Ayers Stoddard for the term of three years with the privilege of five, upon shares. Stoddard was to do all the work, find all the seed and to deliver to the lessor one-third the crops. The farm was to be cropped in a certain specified way, and the lessee was to have the use of certain farm implements of the lessor and was to take good care of them and repair them at his own expense during the term of the lease. This lease and his rights thereunder the lessee afterwards undertook to assign to the plaintiff in error, and under circumstances of questionable good faith, and these proceedings were instituted by the lessor to recover possession of the premises.
The judgment of the court below was correct. The very nature and character of the lease or agreement shows that it was a personal one to the defendant and could not be assigned by him to a third party without the consent of his lessor. The rent or share which the latter would receive, must depend very much upon the character of the lessee, and the latter could not place a party in possession of the premises, who might not be a good husbandman, and who might not be able to carry on the farm operations in a good, careful, and proper manner. Under such a lease the landlord has a right to choose his tenant, and he may be willing to lease upon shares to one man, and yet be wholly unwilling to let another have possession upon any terms. So with reference to the use of his farm implements, one might be a careful, prudent man, who would take good care of them, while another more reckless would not by the owner be permitted to use them upon any terms. The attempt to assign this lease and put another in possesession thereunder worked a...
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