Jackson v. State Bank of Wapello

LAVORATO, Justice.

This case concerns a farmer who was pitted in a six-year battle against the elements, and the elements won. The farmer’s local bank appeals from an adverse jury verdict in the farmer’s case against the bank. The bank raises a number of issues, but we need reach only two. The first issue is whether there was sufficient evidence to submit the farmer’s breach of contract claim premised on the bank’s alleged bad faith in failing to advance the balance of payments on a yearly operating loan. The second issue is closely tied to the first: whether there was sufficient evidence to…