Joe Lamb and Priscilla Lamb v. J. T

On March 26, 1974, Joe Lamb and Priscilla Lamb, husband and wife, (plaintiffs-appellants, hereinafter referred to as Lamb), as lessors, entered into a written lease with J. T. Robinson and Marguerite Robinson, husband and wife, (defendants-respondents, hereinafter referred to as Robinson), as lessees, involving approximately 800 acres of farm land near Mountain Home, Idaho. Under the lease, Robinson contemplated growing approximately 400 acres of potatoes and 400 acres of wheat. The lease called for a cash rental per acre for the different crops. Among other provisions the lease required Lamb, as lessor, to furnish water, power, the pumping equipment and the pipe line for the proper irrigation . . . of the land leased. It was also contemplated under the lease that Lamb would use his best efforts to obtain circle type irrigation equipment to cover approximately 360 acres of the approximate 860 acres which this lease covers. Lamb, as lessor, had on the leased premises a sprinkling irrigation system consisting of hand lines, main line, and additional equipment. Robinson, the lessee, however, preferred to have a pivot or circular type system and he prevailed upon Lamb to make efforts to obtain such a system. Shortly after the lease was signed the parties together contracted with a third party supplier for delivery of two pivot systems. An order was also placed with the power company to provide the electricity to the pumps.