Caballero Planting Co. v. Hymel

SHORTESS, Judge.

This appeal involves a dispute in which a lessee seeks compensation for the value of sugarcane plants and stubble from its lessors upon the termination of a verbal lease.

Everett J. Caballero, incorporator of Caballero Planting Company, Incorporated (plaintiff), had been a tenant on a tract of land in Ascension Parish growing sugarcane since 1963. He farmed this tract of land and others as a sole proprietor until October 1974, when he formed Caballero Planting Co., Inc. In 1986, Caballero transferred all stock in the corporation to his son, Chris Caballero, and retired. On…