Ratcliff v. Aspros

Appellant seeks a reversal of the judgment of the circuit court for the following reasons: (1) The option provision in the lease is too indefinite and uncertain to be enforced and is void; (2) respondents are not the partners to which any option was given; and (3) the court erred in refusing to submit a special verdict to the jury as requested by the plaintiff.

The law in Wisconsin as to the construction of a covenant to renew a lease is well settled. In the case of Kollock v. Scribner (1897), 98 Wis. 104, 109, 73 N. W. 776, the lease was for a term of years “with the privilege of a renewal.”…