Bangen v. Bartelson

MAKING, Justice.

Quentin and Del Ray Bangen appeal from a declaratory judgment holding that a cash lease of farm property the Bangens entered into with Helen Bartelson was “null and void from the outset” and that the Bangens have no claim for money or profits from the disputed property for the 1994 crop year. We reverse.

The focus of this case is on three quarter sections of land in Mountrail County which are owned by John Bartelson, Sr., and Helen Bartelson as joint tenants with rights of sur-vivorship. The Bartelsons were married when they acquired the property in 1945. They were married for…