Falk v. Amsberry

Plaintiffs filed this action to recover damages they incurred because of defendants’ refusal to permit them to harvest a grass seed crop growing on defendants’ land. Both parties moved for directed verdicts; the trial court denied plaintiffs’ motion and granted defendants’. Plaintiffs appeal.

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, are grass seed farmers. For approximately 10 years they leased some 76 acres of farm land from the owner of the land, Norman Larsen. The lease was oral; there is some dispute as to whether the parties intended the lease to be of indefinite duration or to be a yearly lease…