A grandmother will be 'turned out' of her £2.5million country home after losing a 'sad' and 'ruinously expensive' court fight with her daughter. Jane Habberfield, 82, could be forced to sell the family estate in Yeovil, Somerset, to pay off her daughter Lucy, 51. But Lord Justice Lewison told the pensioner her 'desperately difficult situation was of her own making' after the family feud dragged on for years. Lucy was her late father Frank's 'blue-eyed girl' but 'never had a good relationship' with mother, London's Appeal Court heard. After her father died she insisted she should have been given a large share of the farm where she had worked long hours for 30 years. But her continued to fight her in court, even after a judge ruled she pay her £1.1million compensation for her service on the farm. Jane Habberfield, 82, and her daughter Lucy, 51 (right) are in a legal fight over the family farm Lucy, who grafted long hours on their family farm for 30 years - including doing 80-hour weeks milking cows when she was heavily pregnant - sued her mother after she refused to hand her ownership of the farm following her father's death in 2014. She said her parents had promised she would be given the farm and last year a judge ordered mother Jane to pay her daughter over £1.1million to compensate her for devoting her life to the family holding and the cows. Today, the elderly woman lost her appeal against that order and will be 'turned out of her home' due to the cost of losing the 'ruinously expensive litigation,' said Lord Justice Lewison. Mother Jane is backed by her elder daughter Sarah, who previously fought with Jane in a cowshed The court heard that tensions had been already building between mother, daughter and her sister Sarah - who a judge found 'all have a temper' - before a scrap between the sisters in a cowshed at 220-acre Woodrow Farm pushed things to crisis point. The milking parlour fight in 2013 led to Lucy storming out of the family holding where she had worked since she was a schoolgirl, and subsequently filing a court claim for the farm she said she was promised. In her challenge to Lucy's £1.1million payout, her mother claimed her estranged daughter got far too much of the family wealth, saying she wanted her share cut to around £220,000 to be 'fair' to her other children, Sarah, and Andrew and Emma. Mrs Habberfield also pleaded with the judges to allow her to pay her daughter out of her estate when she dies if they ruled the £1.1million order had to stand. It would otherwise force her to sell the farmland and farmhouse, losing her home and livelihood in her twilight years, she said. But Lord Justice Lewison today said that, although it was 'a hard outcome' for an 82-year-old woman to have to leave the house which has been her home for over 40 years, the 'desperately difficult situation in which Jane found herself was of her own making'. 'This is a sad tale of a farming family; The Habberfields,' the judge said, dismissing Jane's appeal. He went on to say that Jane Habberfield must now face selling the farm to pay her daughter her dues, as well as meeting the massive legal costs in the case. 'In order to raise the cash sum to which the judge held Lucy to be entitled, the whole of the farm would have to be sold,' he said. 'On the face of it, it seems hard that an 82-year-old woman should leave the house which has been her home for over 40 years. On the other side of the scale, Lucy was 51 at the date of trial. The farm (pictured) is just outside the pretty village of Yeovil Marsh in south Somerset 'She wanted to begin farming on her own account before it was too late. Without access to the cash award, she would not be able to do so. 'Lucy's expectation was not such as would require her mother to leave the farmhouse. 'But that expectation was predicated on the continuation of a harmonious family relationship; not on the aftermath of a ruinously expensive litigation in which her claim was denied. 'It is not legitimate for a liability in costs arising from an unsuccessful defence of a claim...to be used as a means of denying or postponing what would otherwise be the claimant's award,' the judge said. 'Although Jane is elderly, she might live for many years. In view of the family breakdown it was also highly desirable for there to be a clean break,' he added. The family feud over the farm will be decided by judges at London's Court of Appeal The judge added that the grandmother will not be left 'destitute' and will have enough left from the sale to find a new home. Mrs Habberfield Senior was backed in her fight by her other daughter Sarah, who attended the hearing with her and who the court heard has had a 'tense' relationship with little sister Lucy for a long time and who she blames for the family's troubles. At the High Court hearing last year, Mr Justice Birss said that Lucy began working on the farm when she left school in the early 1980s, earning just £40-50 per week. She worked up to 87 and a half hours and seven days a week, getting up at 4..30am, and had just five weeks' holiday in more than three decades. The mother-of-four carried on doing gruelling physical work for long hours with early starts when she was heavily pregnant or had young babies to care for. Lucy told the court 'she never had a good relationship with her mother'. But she was their late dad Frank's 'favourite' and 'blue-eyed girl' because of their shared passion for dairy farming the judge found. The 'tension' between Lucy and big sister Sarah had 'gone on for a very long time' before they had a physical fight in the milk parlour at the farm, said the judge, adding that 'all the Habberfield family had a temper'. As well as throwing out Jane's appeal against the £1.1m payout, Lord Justice Lewison, who sat with Lord Justice Moylan and Lady Justice Rose, also dismissed Lucy's bid to have it upped to around £1.6m. All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility