Farmer , Grain Dealer
Clash Over Contract
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to replace the corn that
Campbell didn't deliver,
Hostetter said he’d have had
to pay out close to 112,000,
Replacing the wheat would
have cost another 12000.
Campbell’s position was
that he had delivered all the
grain he had, except for 2000
bushels of corn and some 25
acres that he had cut for
silage to feed his dairy herd.
Campbell told the jurers
that he had planned to plant
another 225 acres to corn in
order to fulfill the contract
with Hostetter, but that the
fields he wanted to use were
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standing in water until late
July. He also said that he had
discussed this problem with
Hostetter, and that Hostetter
had told him to fill the
contract as best he could.
Campbell also said that
Hostetter had implied that
his grain firm would supply
■ seed and fertilizer to plant
the 225 acres, but that he had
never received these sup
plies.
Hostetler’s lawyer told the
court that his client was
entitled to the difference
between the market and the
contract price, and that the
fanner was liable for that
cost.
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Campbell’s attorney, on
the other hand, told the
Jurors that his client had in
fact delivered all the com he
could at a contract price that
was $1.25 under the market
price, and that the verbal
agreements had, in fact,
changed£>e contract after it
became apparent that
Campbell couldn’t meet the
contract requirements.
The case dragged on for an
entire day, and attorneys for
both sides wore a path
between the judge’s bend]
and their client’s tables,
discussing the technical
points'of contract law and
the complexities of the
future/ and cash grain
markets. It was a very
complicated proceeding,
‘ with many recesses, with the
Jurors retiring to the Jury
room only at 5:00, after a day
of confusing, and sometimes
heated, debate.
In finding in favor of the
farmer, the Jury said that
Hostetter should pay the
soybean contract price, and
that Campbell could not be
held liable for the non
deliver under the com and
wheal contracts.
Editor’s Note: It is not our
practice to cover court trials
in this newspaper, nor is it
our practice to comment on
the findings of a court of law.
We do not claim to make any
comment here on this case,
we do not claim'to agree or
disagree with the jury’s
° verdict. We went to the trial
ds an impartial observer,
and we have attempted to
report it in an impartial
manner.
We felt the story merited
publication primarily
because it points out the very
complex nature of contract
agreements, and the need for
both dealers and fanners to
think carefully about both
verbal and written
agreements. .
The farm community itself
is a very complex system of
interrelated parts. We feel
that when one part of that
system is injured, it does not
redound to the benefit of any
other part. Like a bruised
apple, a sore affecting any
part of agriculture will soon
affect the entire system.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday , Nov. 9. 1974—7
Sico Scholarship
Funds Available
Dr. D. L. Biemesgerfer,
President of the SICO
Foundation in Mount Joy,
today announced that a
record high of 60 four-year
college scholarships will be
made available by the
Foundation to worthy and
needy 1975 area high school
graduates who plan to
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elementary education.
Biemesderfer further
reported that the value of
each scholarship is being
increased to a new high of
$2,0 00 for four years or $5OO
per year, reflecting the in
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participating colleges.
For 33 years, the SIOO
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hr The SICO Company, the
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the education of young
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