Cowley v. Logan

MARVIN, Judge.

Cowley, the lessor-appellant, appeals from a judgment below rejecting his demands against Logan, lessee-appellee, for rent allegedly due under a written lease of farm land. We affirm.

During the time surrounding the term of the lease, the federal government had a program of supporting the price of cotton by paying to the farmer a fixed price per pound for cotton produced on acreage allotted or allowed to the farmer by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The lease involved here the cotton acreage allotment…