Freese v. Buoy

The plaintiffs, Jerry Freese and Becky Freese, husband and wife, brought suit against the defendant, Howard Buoy, in two counts, one for breach of a sharecropping agreement and another for trespass. In each count the plaintiffs sought compensatory damages of $3,750 and punitive damages of $50,000. This cause of action arose when another farmer, Charles Shuff, who, like the plaintiffs, had a sharecropping agreement with the defendant, “moved” acreage planted in oats by the plaintiffs, as part of a “set aside” program of the Federal government, to another location on the farm owned by the…