Tippett v. Hart

ELLIS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding damages arising from the defendant’s alleged tort of interference with the plaintiff’s performance of her contractual obligations under a Cropland Adjustment Agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture. This agreement prohibited grazing, under the conditions specified, upon a certain portion of plaintiff’s land, and a monetary penalty was assessed against her in consequence of the non-compliance with the non-grazing provision occasioned by the defendant’s unauthorized grazing of his cattle upon plaintiff’s land.…