Tangren Family Trust Ex Rel. Tangren v. Tangren

OPINION

BENCH, Presiding Judge:

T1 Rodney Tangren (Defendant) appeals the decision of the trial court invalidating a lease agreement between Defendant and his father Richard Tangren (Plaintiff). We reverse and remand.

BACKGROUND

T2 This dispute arose out of the joint efforts of Plaintiff and Defendant to develop 185 acres of unimproved land (the Land) near the Colorado River into a dude ranch. In 1981, Plaintiff purchased the Land from the State Institutional Trust Lands and the Bureau of Land Management. The Land has since been held in trust by the Tangren Family Trust, of which Plaintiff is the…