Maier v. Wallace and Cook

This suit was brought under section 6893, Revised Statutes 1919, providing a remedy in favor of the landlord against one who buys a crop grown upon demised premises with knowledge of that fact. At the close of the evidence the court gave an instruction which amounted to a peremptory one to find for plaintiff, resulting in a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $419.60, and defendants have appealed'

The facts show that plaintiff owned a farm in Nod-away'County, Missouri, consisting of eighty acres. In the spring of 1920 plaintiff directed the officers of the Jackson Bank, located in a near-by…