Pocta v. Kleppe Corporation

KNUDSON, Judge.

The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs. The defendants moved for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or in the alternative for a new trial. The court denied the motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and granted the motion for a new trial. The plaintiffs appealed from the order granting the new trial and the defendants cross-appealed from the order denying the motion for judgment notwithstanding the vercjict.

The plaintiffs had farmed the defendants’ farmland for IS years, prior to and including the year 1964, on an oral year-to-year lease providing for…