Haas v. Earley

I respectfully dissent. This is a suit to construe a lease contract. Dr. Nelson W. Haas leased 310 acres of farm land to Cecil Earley on a cash rental basis. The contract was drawn on a U. S. Government form with the blank spaces and special provisions typed in and supplied by the doctor’s own attorney. During the second year of the lease a change in governmental regulations covering the use of the cotton allotment caused a dispute to arise between the parties to this contract. The lessee Earley brought a declaratory judgment action for a construction of the terms of the lease. The trial was…