Cook v. Lenertz

PUDLOWSKI, Chief Judge.

Respondents, Earl Cook and Allen Cook, entered into a sharecrop agreement with the landowner to plant, cultivate and harvest crops on the owner’s land in Cape Girardeau County. Respondents were to receive two-thirds of the proceeds and the owners one-third. The land was composed of six separate fields totaling an area of 26 acres. The respondents planted and cultivated soybeans on the land. Appellant, landowner, in September 1986, informed *683respondents, in a letter that the sharecropping agreement would be terminated as of January first, 1986. On Saturday, November 22,…