Washoe County Bank v. Campbell
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; John S. Orr, Judge. Action by the Washoe County Bank, a corporation, against W. C. Campbell and others. From the judgment rendered, plaintiff appeals. Coleman, J., dissenting. An oral lease of lands for more than one year is void; likewise an oral surrender of a lease, covering a period of more than one year, is equally void.
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Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; John S. Orr, Judge. Action by the Washoe County Bank, a corporation, against W. C. Campbell and others. From the judgment rendered, plaintiff appeals. Coleman, J., dissenting. An oral lease of lands for more than one year is void; likewise an oral surrender of a lease, covering a period of more than one year, is equally void. (Cutting’s Compiled Laws, sec. 2694.) The acceptance of rent from another tenant, even with knowledge that a substitution was claimed, will not amount to a surrender by operation of law. A leasehold interest in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
McCarran, C. J.:
The respondents were the lessees of Mrs. L. E. Alexander Shannon. The premises leased were known as the Alexander Ranch, situated in Washoe County. Some time after the making of the lease, the lessor made an assignment to the Washoe County Bank, appellant here, which assignment is as follows:
“Know all men by these presents, that I, L. E. A. Shannon, the party of the first part in that certain lease hereinafter described, for and in consideration of the sum of ten dollars to me in hand paid by Washoe County Bank, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and for…
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