Wing v. Amalgamated Sugar Co.

BURNETT, Judge.

This case presents three issues: (1) Under what circumstances should a lawsuit be allowed to proceed when there is another, similar suit pending between the same parties in a different court? (2) When a farm lessee sells a crop grown under a crop-share lease, is the landowner entitled to insist that part of the sale proceeds be paid to him directly by the crop purchaser? (3) If the crop purchaser writes jointly payable checks to the landowner and lessee, does the owner’s refusal to negotiate the checks — and his subsequent intervention in a suit by the lessee against the…