Colburn v. Hartshorn

KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶ 1.] This is an action to recover on a cattle caretaking agreement and to foreclose an agister’s lien. The circuit court awarded compensation on the agreement, but ruled the agister’s lien invalid because the cattle were cared for on the cattle owner’s land, not the caretakers’ land. Yet nothing in our laws governing such liens defeats their validity when cattle are entrusted to a caretaker on the cattle owner’s land. Accordingly, we reverse and remand.

Background

[¶ 2.] In January 1998, to run a cow-calf operation, Christine and David Col-burn began leasing real property…