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FREESE v. BUOY

No. 5-90-0335.

576 N.E.2d 1176 (1991)

217 Ill. App.3d 234

160 Ill.Dec. 222

Jerry FREESE and Becky Freese, Plaintiffs-Appellees and Cross-Appellants, v. Howard BUOY, Defendant-Appellant and Cross-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

July 24, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Graham, Jr., Hershey, Beavers, Periard & Graham, Taylorville, for defendant-appellant and cross-appellee.

Mitchell K. Shick, Heller, Holmes, Hefner & Eberspacher, Ltd., Mattoon, for plaintiffs-appellees and cross-appellants.

Justice LEWIS delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs, Jerry Freese and Becky Freese, husband and wife, brought suit against the defendant, Howard Buoy, in two counts, one for breach of a sharecropping agreement and another for trespass. In each count the plaintiffs sought compensatory damages of $3,750 and punitive damages of $50,000. This cause of action arose when another farmer, Charles Shuff, who, like the plaintiffs, had a sharecropping agreement...

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