Hillstrom v. Farmers Inc. Society

The sustaining of plaintiff’s motion for a directed verdict is the primary basis for the instant appeal. The interests of plaintiff, as an assignee of a farm lease, are in conflict with those of the defendant Farmers Incorporated Society, as purchaser of the grain in question from the tenant, and the intervener Olson, as receiver of the present title holder, who purchased the farm from the lessor.

The facts disclose that one Thelander, as owner, leased by written contract a certain farm for the year beginning March 1, 1921, to Andrew Christensen. This lease was subsequently assigned by…