Wade Baker & Sons Farms v. Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

LANSING, Judge.

This action stems from a real estate transaction in which the purchaser of agricultural land agreed to collect rent from a lessee for the next farming season and remit the rental to the seller. When this rental payment was not made, the seller brought this action against the purchaser. The district court granted summary judgment for the purchaser on the basis that a condition precedent to the purchaser’s obligation-payment of rent by the lessee-had not occurred and that the seller’s interference had caused or contributed to the nonoccurrenee of that condition precedent. We…