Kerns v. Pickett

The facts of this case are set out quite fully in the decision rendered when the case was previously here on appeal; (see Kerns v. Pickett, 47 Wn. (2d) 184, 287 P. (2d) 88). That decision should be read in order to facilitate the following discussion of the questions raised on this second appeal.

As will be noted from the previous decision, the lessees (the parties-respondent in the present appeal), under an alleged five-year lease of farm lands, are asking (a) that the lease be held to be a valid and legally binding one, and (b) that the lessor, two of her sons, and other parties (the-…