Williams Insurance of Pierre v. Bear Butte Farms Partnership

MORGAN, Justice.

Defendants, Bear Butte Farms Partnership, Wallace Edland (Edland), and Paul Chabot (Chabot), appeal from an order granting summary judgment to plaintiff Williams Insurance of Pierre, South Dakota, dated March 1, 1985. We affirm.

Edland and Chabot are partners in Bear Butte Farms, which in June of 1984 was engaged in growing crops on its holdings in Meade and Butte Counties in South Dakota. On June 6, 1984, they purchased a hail insurance policy through Ken Asheim (Ash-eim) of Williams Insurance. Edland and Chabot valued the growing crops at $80 per acre for 10,000 acres,…