Butcher v. May

In this case, plaintiff appellee recovered a judgment for $774.93 against defendants appellants, after trial before the court without a jury, as damages for an alleged conversion of certain crops.

It appears that plaintiff had been a tenant on the farm in question under a written lease expiring February 28, 1944, containing no provision for harvesting crops after the expiration of the lease. In October 1943, he planted certain acreage in rye and wheat, to mature in the summer of 1944. On November 1,1943, certain grantors, including Maude N. Butcher and her husband, Francis A. Butcher, the…