Blank v. Fenton

This is an action in conversion and the facts are not in dispute. Plaintiff leased from one Minnie Blank, otherwise known as Mrs. August Blank, under a common cropper's contract, certain lands for the years 1925 and 1926 and agreed to crop the same — each party to have one half of the crop and pay one half of the threshing bill, and plaintiff was to deliver one half of the crop to the landlord at the machine, or at an elevator in Ambrose as she might elect. Minnie Blank was the purchaser of these lands under a contract for purchase and sale made with one "E" and his wife. Under this contract,…