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HASTINGS, MINN. – The demise of a historic creamery that burned down this fall reached the county courthouse on Friday, with an attorney for a Minnesota dairy farmer — allegedly stiffed by the creamery in its waning days — asking a judge to block a bank from cashing milk checks. "The creamery was buying milk and not paying my client," John Giesen, attorney for Valley Acres Dairy, told Dakota .
The lawsuit alleges Evergreen Acres failed to pay at least $3 million of vulnerable workers' earned wages and illegally charged rent for substandard housing