Read v. Estate of Mincks

RAWLINGS, Justice.

Action in equity by landlords against estate executor and surviving widow of deceased tenant for recovery of possession and to quiet title in farm property resulted in decree adverse to defendants. They appeal. We reverse.

Plaintiffs acquired the farmland here involved May 2, 1968, on death of their father. Sometime in 1952 or 1953 he had entered into an oral year to year lease agreement with Everet H. Mincks. This tenancy continued without interruption.

November 27, 1968, Mincks died following an illness which commenced in the summer of that year. Absent receipt of statutory…