Schumacher v. Stephens

¶1 Appellants Gary Schumacher, as Trustee for the Gary W. Schumacher Revocable Trust, and Bryan Schumacher, as Trustee for the Milton C. Schumacher Trust for Gary, (Schumachers) filed an action against Robert Stephens, Jr. (Stephens) under a crop-share/ cash-payment farm lease. Schumachers alleged claims for conversion and breach of contract concerning both the winter-wheat production and the spring-wheat production. At the close of Schumacher’s case, the District Court for the Ninth Judicial District, Teton County, granted Stephens’ Rule 50, M.R.Civ.P, motion for a directed verdict (judgment…