System Terminal Corporation v. Cornelison

The Cornelisons, husband and wife, owners of grazing land in Custer County, South Dakota, filed suit against the System corporations and B. M. Stewart, a principal stockholder, alleging plaintiffs’ ownership of the land, a five-year lease to the defendants, their failure to yield up the premises in good order, overgrazing, and misuse of the land contrary to the covenants of the lease, claiming $9,119.16. Defendants admitted the lease but denied other allegations and counterclaimed for $3,000 because of plaintiffs’ pasturing the land for several months during the term of the lease. The court…