BAKER v. NEWCOMB

No. 11913.

621 S.W.2d 535 (1981)

Alvin BAKER, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Arthur D. NEWCOMB, M.D., Defendant-Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, En Banc.

September 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Ratzlaff, Boyer & Ratzlaff, Lamar, for plaintiff-respondent.

William J. Fleischaker, Roberts & Fleischaker, Joplin, for defendant-appellant.


PREWITT, Judge.

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict awarding plaintiff actual and punitive damages for trespass. Plaintiff, a tenant of defendant's farm land under an oral agreement, brought suit contending that defendant distributed fescue, clover and grass seed on the land, thereby damaging a wheat crop that plaintiff has sown.

By their agreement plaintiff was to receive three-fifths of the wheat crop and defendant two-fifths. The...

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