Jessen v. Blackard

Plaintiffs, Morris and Ilse Jessen, brought this action against defendant Mary Beard Blackard, trustee, whose name is now Mary Beard, and others, who were dismissed out of the case before trial, seeking to recover $50,000 damages for alleged conversion of their wheat crop grown and harvested by defendant upon described school lands of which defendant was the former lessee as trustee, and plaintiffs were the new lessees. Concededly, all of the improvements on the land, including the crop involved, were appraised by the county commissioners for a net of $44,026 on June 24, 1952, and such…