Giles v. Russell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, C. J.:

This appeal arises from a dispute over a lease with option to purchase agreement entered into by the appellant as lessee and the appellees as lessors. The subject matter of the agreement was approximately one-half section of farm land in Pawnee County, Kansas.

In 1944, the land in question was conveyed to “Clifford T. Russell and Ellen Russell, husband and wife, or the survivor of them for the period of their natural lives, and at the death of the survivor, their then living children . . . On June 27, 1972, Mr. and Mrs. Russell, for…