Meyer v. Hawkeye Bank & Trust Co.

HARRIS, Justice.

In Perkins v. Farmers Trust & Savings Bank, 421 N.W.2d 533 (Iowa 1988), we held that a landlord’s lien enjoys priority over a perfected security interest in crops grown on the land. The question here is whether such a priority exists as to all crops grown on both of two farms which were separately leased by the same landlord to the same tenants. The trial court determined that the landlord’s lien for each lease attached only to crops raised on the separate premises covered by that lease. Hence crops grown on one farm were not subject to a landlord’s lien for rent due on the…