Ellingson v. Ammann

ZINTER, Justice.

[¶ 1.] At the start of each beekeeping season, Ellingson’s Inc. placed its honey bees on the real property of others, a common practice in the beekeeping industry. After Ellingson’s Inc. determined it would no longer own bees, it sought to lease to other beekeepers the right to place bees on the property of some of the landowners with whom Ellingson’s Inc. had been doing business. In the spring of 2011, Jim Ammann (Ammann), a competing beekeeper, sought permission to place his bees on the property of a number of the landowners who had previously given Ellingson’s Inc.…