Gessler v. Madigan

This action originated as a complaint by the owners of farm land against the cash tenant of their predecessor in title seeking to recover from the tenant damages for the value of a wheat crop planted by him before his lease expired but harvested and removed thereafter and for preliminary and permanent injunctions to prevent the tenant from harvesting and removing the wheat straw remaining on the farm after the wheat crop was combined. After hearing on the motion for the preliminary injunction the trial judge concluded in his decision that there being nothing in the written lease specifying…