Rich v. Hughes

KRUCKER, Judge.

Appellants, plaintiffs, David Rich and Albert Horwitch, doing business as Eloy and Toltec Farms, sued defendants, ap-pellees, Kirby and Edith Hughes, husband and wife, their former tenants, for missing farm equipment and for acres of cotton planted but not paid for. The Hughes counterclaimed for wrongful termination of their lease and for amounts due on two promissory notes from Rich. The court, sitting without a jury, allowed the claims for missing equipment and for some additional rent, excluding acreage planted on property off the two farms by virtue of the combining of…