Benjamin N. Cardozo,
First National Bank Trust Company of Bridgeport v…
“ To get a living out of the land in one way or another is the thread of common purpose that binds the labor and the leases, and enables us to find in them the tokens of the same vocation. In brief the man is seen to be a farmer by every test of common speech, though his income has been garnered in rents as well as products. ”
Benjamin N. Cardozo,
First National Bank Trust Company of Bridgeport v…
“ In that view, the farming is still the business; the leases are then investments, more profitable than the business, but leaving it unchanged. A farmer remains a farmer, just as a lawyer remains a lawyer, though the returns of his investments, while not enough to keep him going, are larger, none the less, than the profits of his labor. ”
Benjamin N. Cardozo,
First National Bank Trust Company of Bridgeport v…
“ A single tract of land belonging to the debtor has been worked by him in part, and in part worked by others to whom a section of the tract has been let for cultivation. Far from stepping into another business, he has been faithful to the old one in thus dividing up the tillage. ”
