Miller v. Stults

VALLÉE, J.

Appeal by defendant from an adverse judgment in an action for money alleged to be owing for labor and the use of equipment in summer-fallowing agricultural land in Monterey County.

Prior to May 1944 the land was owned by H H H Land and Livestock Company. Defendant acquired the land in May 1944. Plaintiff Henry Miller and his father farmed the land from 1933 to 1935; Henry and his brother, Raymond, farmed *594it from 1935 .to 1939; and Henry farmed it from 1939 to October 1, 1944. The land was planted to grain. From the time the Millers began farming the land in 1933 part of it was…