Jensma v. Allen

Plaintiff, Jensma, was a crop tenant on “the cropland” of defendant’s quarter section. Both were farmers and lived a mile apart. Under their lease they were to share the crop “on a 50-50” basis. Many of its provisions are not pertinent here. Near its end however was a paragraph with which we shall have some concern:

“The stock fields shall belong to the landlord, and if there is an undue amount of corn remaining in the cornfield after picking, the tenant agrees to pick the same and divide equally with the landlord.”

Plaintiff testifies that the term “stock fields” means “all the acres that was…