Phelps v. Union Central Life Insurance

Opinion:

The plaintiff commenced this action to collect $1,520, with interest, for plowing alleged to have been done on lands of the defendant and at the instance of H. P. Sowter, an agent of the defendant. The defendant is the owner of some 200 farms in Montana and northern Wyoming, which were under the local supervision of H. B. Smith & Son, of Billings, Montana.

The complaint alleges the formation of a partnership between the plaintiff and his father, David Y. Phelps, in the spring of 1930, for the purpose of “farming a certain tract of land, the property of the defendant, lying and being in…