Willmore v. Christensen

SHEPARD, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of plaintiffs for unlawful detainer, with defendants contending that a lease of farm lands was violated by plaintiffs’ sale of the land during the alleged term of the lease.

Plaintiffs-respondents, hereinafter plaintiffs, by written contract in 1958 leased to the defendants-appellants certain farm lands. The contract contained an option for the lessee to renew and to also have a first option to purchase. Although the evidence is somewhat conflicting, defendants contend that the lease contract was orally renewed in 1962 for an additional…