Fox Grain and Cattle Co. v. Maxwell

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from a jury verdict in the Tenth Judicial District Court involving the termination of a farm lease. By special verdict the jury found that Frank F. Maxwell (Maxwell), did not materially breach the farm lease which he entered with Fox Grain & Cattle Co. (Fox Grain). The jury, however, found that Maxwell owed Fox Grain $38,779.60 for farming expenses; it then awarded Maxwell $23,013.42, plus 75 percent of the net Federal Crop Insurance Payment, for Fox Grain’s failure to mitigate its damages, and found in favor of Maxwell on his counterclaims: 1) $16,721.15…