Bullock v. Grinstead
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 44 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM JEPPERSON CIRCUIT COURT, CHANCERY DIVISION. 1. Covenant to renew is a right of the lessee. (Wood on Landlord and Tenant, p. 675.) 2. The lessors having declined to buy, the lease was binding for fifty years.
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Case 44 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM JEPPERSON CIRCUIT COURT, CHANCERY DIVISION. 1. Covenant to renew is a right of the lessee. (Wood on Landlord and Tenant, p. 675.) 2. The lessors having declined to buy, the lease was binding for fifty years. (Taylor’s Landlord and Tenant, sec. 38; Taylor’s Landlord and Tenant, see. 43; Wilkinson v. Pettit, &c., 47 Barb., 230; Kramer v. Cooke, 7 Gray, 550; Holley v. Young, 66 Me., 520; Weed v. Crocker, 13 Gray, 220; Russman v. Ganster, 72 Penn. St., 285; Jackson v. Kisselhaok, 10 John., 336; Deloshman v. Berry, 20 Mich., 292; Poole v. Brently, 12 East.…
1Opinion of the Court
CHIEE JUSTICE BENNETT
delivered the opinion oe the court.
In 1867, Mrs. Mary Bullock, wife of Judge W. E. Bullock, owned- as general estate a lot of ground in the city of Louisville, with the power to dispose of the same by will. Mrs. Bullock and her husband, on the 17th day of April, 1867, made and acknowledged, and had recorded, a contract with the firm of McKee & Cunningham, in substance as follows: They leased to said firm said lot “ for the term of twenty-five years,” commencing the 1st of June, 1867. The firm was to pay therefor three - thousand dollars per annum, payable 'quarterly,…
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