McClelland v. Murphy

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson—

Reversing.

Appellee, Jennie M. Murphy, before her marriage-was Jennie N. Taylor, and in 1883 owned a vacant lot in the city of Louisville which she, by written contract-, leased to appellant’s decedent, Kell, for a term of fifteen years at a stipulated yearly rental payable semi-annually. Kell erected two cottages on the lot and rented them to tenants. At the end of the fifteen-year term the- parties made the following endorsement on the contract:

“April 11, 1898, this 'lease by the consent of both parties is extended five years for which the party…