Leis v. Beckmark

This is a controversy between a tenant and his landlords over their respective obligations and shares of crops under an oral contract for the cultivation of farm lands on which beets, potatoes, corn, barley, oats and other crops were produced in Morrill county during the season of 1935. Henry Leis, Jr., plaintiff, was tenant and John W. Beck-mark, Vincent B. Beckmark and Amanda J. Beckmark, defendants, were landlords.

The cause was first tried before a duly appointed and qualified referee who heard the parties at great length on pleas of plaintiff and defendants for an accounting. The referee…