Court Opinion

ID: 9885035
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 03:28:06.892147+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:43.413303
License: Public Domain

FORSBERG, Judge
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. The trial court cited Roehrs v. Thompson, 185 Minn. 154, 240 N.W. 111 (1932) as authority for its position. I agree. The court in that case said:
“Without exception it has been held that an owner of land obtaining possession either by means of legal process or by other means is entitled to whatever crops are at the time growing on the land. And no distinction is made in such cases between disseisors and mere trespassers.” [cite omitted]
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In the case of an executory contract for the sale of land, the vendee under our law has usually only 30 days’ notice of cancellation. The effect may be to cut off his rights in crops sown before any notice of cancellation, and even before any default to justify cancellation. But the remedy is with the legislature and not the courts, who must declare the law as they find it to be.
Id. at 159, 240 N.W. at 113. The reason for such holding is that a vendor could essentially be deprived of the use of his or her land, even though the vendee’s interest has been extinguished (assuming cancellation occurred immediately following planting).