In Re the Estate of Sauder

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Luckert, J.:

The coadministrators of the Estate of David E. Sauder (Estate) seek a determination of the effect of the decedent’s written and oral sharecrop farm leases upon the ownership of crops that the decedent had planted as a sharecrop tenant but had not harvested at the time of his death and of crops planted, grown, and harvested after his death on property which the decedent had prepared for planting. The coadministrators contend that several oral leases and one written lease under which David farmed tire property of others did not terminate upon…