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LEIGH v. LYNCH

No. 62024.

112 Ill.2d 411 (1986)

493 N.E.2d 1040

BENNY LEIGH, Appellee, v. CHARLES LYNCH, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed May 21, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David K. Frankland, of Albion, for appellant.

Law Offices of Robert L. Douglas, Ltd., of Robinson (Robert L. Douglas and Fred W. Johnson, of counsel), for appellee.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This action arose following the sale of a parcel of land in Edwards County. The plaintiff, Benny Leigh, a tenant farmer under a year-to-year oral lease, seeded 32 acres of clover on the land prior to its sale. The defendant, Charles Lynch, the new owner of the property, destroyed the clover some five months after plaintiff's lease expired, but approximately two...

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