Hicks v. Gentry

Felton, Chief Judge.

The trial court’s judgment was right for four reasons:

1. The question involved here has been ruled on in Save-Way Oil Co. v. Thomas, 100 Ga. App. 181 (110 SE2d 681). The rationale of that case and this is that the original lease provides for the exercise of options to renew for two five-year terms. The question is not whether the word “renew” or the word “extend” is used but whether the parties intended a present devise or that a new lease be executed at the end of each five-year term. In the case above cited and in this one the original lease provided for an option as to…