Bussard v. Binder

In this action plaintiffs recovered damages because of the defendant’s alleged breach of an implied promise in a sharecrop lease to harvest wheat in a husbandlike manner. The trial court sitting without a jury awarded plaintiffs judgment of $4,223.40 and defendant appeals.

The parties entered into a verbal lease of plaintiffs’ land whereby defendant was to pay as rent one-third of the wheat crop to be raised by defendant. Defendant contends that under this arrangement he did not have an implied duty to exercise good husbandry in cultivating and harvesting the crop.

We have not decided…